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Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

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Eskil Wadensjö () (SOFI, Stockholm University and IZA Bonn)

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Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the social security system. The other two were a partial early old-age pension, and a partial disability pension. The special partial pension scheme became very popular with a high take-up rate and was criticized for being too expensive. As a part of the decision on the old age pension scheme in 1994, the partial pension scheme was made less generous, and the scheme was totally abolished from year 2001. The other two options for combining work and receiving a pension continue. In this paper the effect on the total number of hours worked of the subsidized part-time pension system is analysed. The analysis indicates that the effect that people continue to work part-time instead of taking an early exit route is larger than the effect that people who would have continued to work fulltime until ordinary retirement age instead work part-time.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2273.

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Date of creation: Aug 2006
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Keywords: part-time work; part-time pension; older workers; labour supply;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped

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  1. Erling Rasmussen & Jens Lind & Jelle Visser, 2004. "Divergence in Part-Time Work in New Zealand, the Netherlands and Denmark," British Journal of Industrial Relations, Blackwell Publishers Ltd/London School of Economics, vol. 42(4), pages 637-658, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. William Even & David Macpherson, 2004. "Do Pensions Impede Phased Retirement?," Labor and Demography 0407001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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  3. R. Kent Weaver, 2003. "The Politics Of Public Pension Reform," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College 2003-06, Center for Retirement Research. [Downloadable!]
  4. Steven G. Allen, 2004. "The Value of Phased Retirement," NBER Working Papers 10531, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Steven G. Allen & Robert L. Clark & Linda S. Ghent, 2003. "Phasing Into Retirement," NBER Working Papers 9779, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Tunga Kantarci & Arthur Soest, 2008. "Gradual Retirement: Preferences and Limitations," De Economist, Springer, vol. 156(2), pages 113-144, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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