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Norwegian

Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families

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Authors:

Hernæs, Erik, Zhiyang Jia and Steinar Strøm

Year:

2001

Reference:

Andre skrifter
CESifo Working Paper No. 476

Summary

Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates and predictions derived from the different models are compared. Yet, no definite conclusion is reached with respect to what model is best at explaining the observed behavior. The models are employed to simulate the impacts on labor supply of taxing pension income the same way as labor income. We find that that this change of the tax system may reduce the propensity to retire early considerably.

JEL:

D10, H55, J26

Keywords:

Family labor supply, retirement, econometric models, policy simulations

Project:

Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsråd
Oppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 1202 - Pension schemes, work activity and retirement behaviour