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A Test Of Lazear’S Mandatory Retirement Model

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  • Steven Stern

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  • Petra Todd

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Abstract

This chapter discusses several testable implications of Lazear’s (1979) model of mandatory retirement and tests whether they are consistent with the data, using a sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Men. Empirical evidence on the close association between firm pension programs and mandatory retirement programs can be interpreted to lend support to Lazear’s model. However, estimates from an econometric model of retirement behavior reject an important implication of the model concerning the relationship between mandatory retirement and the propensity to retire early.

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Paper provided by University of Virginia, Department of Economics in its series Virginia Economics Online Papers with number 391.

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Length: 22 pages
Date of creation: Dec 2000
Handle: RePEc:vir:virpap:391
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Keywords: mandatory retirement; survival analysis;

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  • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
  • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies

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Cited by:

  1. Alan L. Gustman & F. Thomas Juster, 1995. "Income and Wealth of Older American Households: Modeling Issues for Public Policy Analysis," NBER Working Papers 4996, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Uschi Backes-Gellner & Stephan Veen, 2007. "Aging Workforces and Challenges to Human Resource Management in German Firms," Working Papers 0079, University of Zurich, Institute for Strategy and Business Economics (ISU).

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