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Mandatory Retirement Rules And The Retirement Decisions Of University Professors In Canada

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  • Christopher Worswick

    (Carleton University)

  • Casey Warman

    (Queen's University)

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We examine the impact of mandatory retirement on the retirement decisionsof professors in Canada using administrative data. We find that the agedistributions of professors at universities without mandatory retirementand those at universities with mandatory retirement at age 65 havediverged over time with a higher fraction of professors over the age of 65being at universities without mandatory retirement. Estimation of adiscrete time hazard model indicates that faculty members at universitieswith mandatory retirement at age 65 have exit rates at age 65 that arearound 30 to 36 percentage points higher than those of their counterpartsat universities without mandatory retirement. Similar results are foundfor both men and women; however, the magnitude of this effect is somewhatsmaller for women.

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  • Christopher Worswick & Casey Warman, 2009. "Mandatory Retirement Rules And The Retirement Decisions Of University Professors In Canada," Working Paper 1202, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    • Handle: RePEc:qed:wpaper:1202
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    JEL classification:

    • 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; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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