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Implications of Full and Partial Retirement for Replacement Rates in a Defined Benefit System

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  • Tunga Kantarcı

    (Department of Economics, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, Thomas van Aquinostraat 5, 6525 GD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.)

  • Ingrid A J Smeets

    (Department of Governing Board Consulting, APG Algemene Pensioen Groep N.V., Oude Lindestraat 70, 6411 EJ, Heerlen, The Netherlands.)

  • Arthur van Soest

    (Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 AB, Tilburg, The Netherlands.)

Abstract

Flexible retirement arrangements in which workers can retire abruptly or gradually at the age of their choice with higher retirement income as a reward for working more or longer fit well with the changes in life course patterns in the past decades and may help to keep pension systems sustainable in times of population ageing. We analyse the flexibility of an existing pension arrangement in the Netherlands, characterised by a subsistence-level pay-as-you-go state pension combined with a supplementary occupational pension. We use the actual rules of a large occupational pension fund, the state pension and the tax system to calculate net replacement rates at ages 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement scenarios. We find that partial retirement results in a smoother income path and encourages employees to defer their pension claims beyond age 65. Moreover, while occupational pensions give close to actuarially fair rewards for continued full-time or part-time work, the state pension does not. This makes postponing retirement less attractive for low-income groups in particular.

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  • Tunga Kantarcı & Ingrid A J Smeets & Arthur van Soest, 2013. "Implications of Full and Partial Retirement for Replacement Rates in a Defined Benefit System," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 38(4), pages 824-856, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gpprii:v:38:y:2013:i:4:p:824-856
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    1. Pavlína Kirschnerová & Jana Janoušková, 2018. "Are Tax Expenditures of Individuals Only a Tool of Tax Optimisation?," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 24(3), pages 239-252, August.

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