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Instead of Bowling Alone? Unretirement of Old-Age Pensioners

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  • Pettersson, Jan

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    (Department of Economics)

Abstract

We study re-entry to the workforce of fully retired persons, so-called unretirement, and whether the decision to resume work depends primarily on social or economic reasons. Using Swedish register data for already retired individuals older than 55, we find unretirement to vary between 6 and 14 per cent under two different definitions. Our results largely support an interpretation that unretirement is a life-style decision rather than a response to a realized negative economic situation post retirement. However, economic motives seem to be more important for younger pensioners.

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Paper provided by Uppsala University, Department of Economics in its series Working Paper Series with number 2011:14.

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Length: 41 pages
Date of creation: 09 Sep 2011
Handle: RePEc:hhs:uunewp:2011_014
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Keywords: Retirement; Unretirement; Pensions; Labour supply;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

  • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
  • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies

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Cited by:

  1. Mona Larsen & Peder Pedersen, 2013. "To work, to retire – or both? Labor market activity after 60," IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 2(1), pages 1-20, December.

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