Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024The decline in the labor force participation of older men throughout the 20th century, as well as the substantial increases in participation among older men and women over the past two decades, have generated substantial interest in understanding the effect of public pension programs on retirement decisions. This paper details the work of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s International Social Security (ISS) Project, a long-term collaboration among researchers in a dozen developed countries, to explore this and related questions. The ISS project employs a harmonized approach to conduct within-country analyses that can be combined for meaningful cross-country comparisons. The key lesson learned from this project is that the choices of policy makers affect the incentive to work at older ages and that these incentives have important effects on retirement behavior
Baker, Michael, James Banks, Melika Ben Salem, Paul Bingley, Didier Blanchet, Richard Blundell, Richard Woodbury, Michele Boldrín, Antoine Bozio, Agar Brugiavini, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Raluca Buia, Axel Börsch-Supan, Eve Caroli, Courtney Coile, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Peter Diamond, Anne-Lore Fraikin, Mayu Fujii, Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Pilar García-Gómez, Nicolas Goll, Per Johansson, Paul Johnson, Alain Jousten, Michael Jørgensen, Hendrik Jürges, Malene Kallestrup-Lamb, Arie Kapteyn, Ronan Mahieu, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, David Wise, Klaas de Vos, Jonathan Gruber, Kevin Milligan, Luc Behaghel, Thierry Debrand, Arnaud Dellis, Raphaël Desmet, Carl Emmerson, Irene Ferrari, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Adriaan Kalwij, Simone Kohnz, Lisa Laun, Mathieu Lefebvre, Costas Meghir, Akiko Oishi, Takashi Oshio, Mårten Palme, Giacomo Pasini, Peder Pedersen, Louis-Paul Pelé, Franco Peracchi, Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau, Corinne Prost, Simon Rabaté, Johannes Rausch, Muriel Roger, Tammy Schirle, Reinhold Schnabel, Morten Schuth, Satoshi Shimizutani, Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Stijns, David Sturrock, Ingemar Svensson, Gemma Tetlow, Lars Thiel, Maxime Tô, Julie Tréguier, Emiko Usui, Judit Vall-Castelló, Emmanuelle Walraet, Guglielmo Weber und Naohiro Yashiro (2024), Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance