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Pension Reform and Labor Market Incentives

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Fisher, Walter H. (Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria)
Keuschnigg, Christian (University of St. Gallen (IFF-HSG) and CEPR and CESifo)

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This paper investigates how parametric reform in a pay-as-you-go pension system with a tax benefit link affects retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of prime-age workers in the presence of a tax benefit link, thereby creating a policy trade-off in stimulating aggregate labor supply. We show how several popular reform scenarios are geared either towards young or old workers, or, indeed, both groups under appropriate conditions. We also provide a sharp characterization of the excess burden of pension insurance and show how it depends on the behavioral supply elasticities on the extensive and intensive margins and the effective tax rates implicit in contribution rates.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Studies in its series Economics Series with number 208.

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Keywords: Pension reform Retirement Hours worked Tax benefit link Actuarial adjustment Excess burden

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H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies

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