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Too busy to stay at work : How willing are Italian workers "to pay" for earlier retirement?

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  • Flavia Coda Moscarola

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

  • Riccardo Calcagno
  • Elsa Fornero

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Using a representative sample of Italian workers aged 55+, we survey their understanding of the recent (2011) pension reform and analyse their preference for anticipated retirement and availability to pay for exiting a year earlier. The preference for anticipated retirement is particularly strong for women and for workers who were obliged by the reform to postpone retirement. As for the "willingness to pay", we find that women who are involved in informal care of children are available to pay significantly more than women who are not caregivers, and even more than men. In terms of policy, our findings point to the need of considering side effects of reforms and of integrating policy measures. In particular, when a pension system compensates for gaps in other welfare programs (like providing early retirement as a substitute for lack of public care services), its reform may cause social mismatches unless supplemented by appropriate changes in these other programs.

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  • Flavia Coda Moscarola & Riccardo Calcagno & Elsa Fornero, 2017. "Too busy to stay at work : How willing are Italian workers "to pay" for earlier retirement?," Post-Print hal-02312049, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02312049
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    1. Agovino Massimiliano & Garofalo Antonio & Cerciello Massimiliano, 2019. "Do Local Institutions Affect Labour Market Participation? The Italian Case," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 19(2), pages 1-21, April.

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