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Swedish Pension Reforms in the 1990s

Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2002

Many Western countries with an aging population consider reforms of their pay-as-you-go pension systems. In Sweden a new pension system has already been decided and implemented. This paper gives a brief background to the Swedish reforms in the 1990s and explains the structure of the new system.

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Political economy and pensions in ageing societies – a note on how an "impossible" reform was implemented in Sweden

Kruse, Agneta - 2005

Ageing puts a strain on most countries' pension systems; forecasts show them to be more or less unsustainable. Evidence from social choice research, theoretical as well as empirical, does not seem to offer a way out of the dilemma, as the median voter will resist a reform. Despite this, Sweden...

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Later retirement and the labor market re-integration of elderly unemployed workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2020

This paper studies the impact of raising the eligibility age of early retirement on the re-integration into the labor market of elderly unemployed workers. I exploit two Austrian pension reforms increasing the early retirement age step-wise for different quarter-of-birth cohorts. Empirical...

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Pension reform, incentives to retire and retirement behavior: Empirical evidence from Swedish micro-data

Laun, Lisa; Palme, Mårten - 2022

This paper investigates to what extent the 1998 reform of Sweden's public old-age pension system contributed to the increase in extensive margin labor supply among older workers seen in the country in recent decades. We use a large data set containing all males and females born in Sweden between...

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What are the health effects of postponing retirement? An instrumental variable approach

Hagen, Johannes - 2016

This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing comes from a reform which raised the age at which...

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Retirement patterns during the Swedish pension fund

Glans, Erik - 2008

The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits than the former system. I study whether the reform has...

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Who is in favor of immigration

Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019

Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...

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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006

asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …

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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006

exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …

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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

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