TY - JOUR
T1 - The Impact of an Increase in the Legal Retirement Age on the Effective Retirement Age
AU - Bernal, Noelia
AU - Vermeulen, Frederic
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - We analyze the impact of an increase in the legal retirement age on the effective retirement age in the Netherlands. We do this by means of a dynamic programming model for the retirement behavior of singles. The model is applied to new administrative data that contain very accurate and detailed information on individual incomes and occupational pension entitlements. Our model is able to capture the main patterns observed in the data. We observe that as individuals get older their labor supply declines considerably and this varies by age and gender. We simulate the current pension reform which aims at gradually increasing the legal retirement age from 65 to 67 and a hypothetical reform that immediately increases the retirement age to 67. The simulation results show a small impact on the effective retirement age for the first reform and a bigger impact for the second reform. Respectively, individuals postpone their retirement by <1 month and 7 months on average; while differences across individuals mainly depend on their gender and health status.
AB - We analyze the impact of an increase in the legal retirement age on the effective retirement age in the Netherlands. We do this by means of a dynamic programming model for the retirement behavior of singles. The model is applied to new administrative data that contain very accurate and detailed information on individual incomes and occupational pension entitlements. Our model is able to capture the main patterns observed in the data. We observe that as individuals get older their labor supply declines considerably and this varies by age and gender. We simulate the current pension reform which aims at gradually increasing the legal retirement age from 65 to 67 and a hypothetical reform that immediately increases the retirement age to 67. The simulation results show a small impact on the effective retirement age for the first reform and a bigger impact for the second reform. Respectively, individuals postpone their retirement by <1 month and 7 months on average; while differences across individuals mainly depend on their gender and health status.
KW - Dynamic programming
KW - Effective retirement age
KW - Normal retirement age
KW - Dynamic programming
KW - Effective retirement age
KW - Normal retirement age
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U2 - 10.1007/s10645-014-9226-8
DO - 10.1007/s10645-014-9226-8
M3 - Article in a journal
SN - 0013-063X
VL - 162
SP - 115
EP - 145
JO - Economist (Netherlands)
JF - Economist (Netherlands)
IS - 2
ER -