SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance
No 184:
Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden
Mårten Palme ()
and Ingemar Svensson
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the Swedish social
security system and its impact on individual retirement behavior. First, we
give some historical facts, as well as a more detailed description of the
current situation, of labor market behavior of older persons. Second, we
describe the social security system. We also describe the different
occupational pension schemes, which have an increasing importance. Finally,
we show the results from a simulation, where we have used the earnings path
of several representative workers to calculate the implicit tax (or
subsidy) rate on additional work after age 55 generated by the social
security system in interaction with occupational pensions, income taxes as
well as housing allowances. We find that the observed labor market behavior
of older men is in accordance with the economic incentives generated by the
social security system and in particular with the occupational pension
scheme for blue collar workers.
Keywords: Pensions; labor force participation; labor supply of older men; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: H55; J14; J26; (follow links to similar papers)
78 pages, August 26, 1997
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Palme, Mårten and Ingemar Svensson, (1999), 'Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden' in Gruber, Jonathan and David Wise (eds.) Social Security and Retirement Around the World, chapter 9, pages 355-402, University of Chicago Press, NBER, ISBN 0-226-31011-6.
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