Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Lessons from a Long-Term Collaboration

Coile, Courtney; Jousten, Alain; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Wise, David; Gruber, Jonathan; Milligan, Kevin; Woodbury, Richard; Baker, Michael; Banks, James; Behagel, Luc; Ben Salem, Melika; Bingley, Paul; Blundell, Richard; Blanchet, Didier; Boldrin, Michele; Bozio, Antoine; Brugiavini, Agar; Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Buia, Raluca Ena; Caroli, Eve; Debrand, Thierry; Dellis, Arnaud; Desmet, Raphaël; de Vos, Klaas; Diamond, Peter; Emmerson, Carl; Ferrari, Irene; Fraikin, Anne-Lore; Fujii, Mayu; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Garcia-Mandico, Silvia; Goll, Nicolas; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Jiminez-Martin, Sergi; Johansson, Per; Johnson, Paul; Jorgensen, Michael; Jürges, Hendrik; Kallestrup-Lamb, Malene; Kalwij, Adriaan; Kapteyn, Arie; Kohnz, Simone; Laun, Lisa; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Mahieu, Ronan; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; Oishi, Akiko; Oshio, Takashi; Palme, Marten; Pasini, Giacomo; Pedersen, Peder; Pelé, Louis-Paul; Peracchi, Franco; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre; Prost, Corinne; Rabaté, Simon; Rausch, Johannes; Roger, Muriel; Schirle, Tammy; Schnabel, Reinhold; Schuth, Morten; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Smith, Sarah; Stijns, Jean-Philippe; Sturrock, David; Svensson, Ingemar; Tetlow, Gemma; Thiel, Lars; Tô, Maxime; Tréguier, Julie; Usui, Emiko; Vall-Castello, Judit; Walraet, Emmanuelle; Weber, Guglielmo; Yashiro, Naohiro

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Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Lessons from a Long-Term Collaboration

Coile, Courtney; Jousten, Alain; Börsch-Supan, Axel et al.

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labor force participation, older workers, public pensions, retirement, social security

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[en] Declining labor force participation of older men throughout the 20th century and recent increases in participation have generated substantial interest in understanding the effect of public pensions on retirement. The National Bureau of Economic Research's International Social Security (ISS) Project, a long-term collaboration among researchers in a dozen developed countries, has explored this and related questions. The project employs a harmonized approach to conduct within-country analyses that are combined for meaningful cross-country comparisons. The key lesson is that the choices of policy makers affect the incentive to work at older ages and these incentives have important effects on retirement behavior.

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Economic systems & public economics

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Coile, Courtney

Jousten, Alain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de droit > Finances publiques et politique économique

Börsch-Supan, Axel

Wise, David

Gruber, Jonathan

Milligan, Kevin

Woodbury, Richard

Baker, Michael

Banks, James

Behagel, Luc

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Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Lessons from a Long-Term Collaboration

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2025

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Journal of Pension Economics and Finance

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1474-7472

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1475-3022

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Cambridge University Press

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