Introduction and Summary
Introduction and Summary
This volume represents the second stage of a research project to study the relationship between social security provisions and retirement. The first stage of the project, reported in Gruber and Wise (1999), documented the enormous disincentives for continued work at older ages in many countries. The analysis also revealed a strong correspondence across countries between social security program incentives to retire early and the proportion of older persons who have left the labor force. In this second stage, researchers turn to country-by-country analysis of retirement behavior based on micro-data. This introductory chapter begins with a background on the first stage of the study. It then discusses the analysis and issues addressed in the second state of the study.
Keywords: social security, retirement behavior, program incentives, older persons, labor force
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
