Do notional defined contribution schemes prolong working life? Evidence from the 1994 Swedish pension reform

Haodong Qi; Jonas Helgertz; Tommy Bengtsson

doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.11.001

Do notional defined contribution schemes prolong working life? Evidence from the 1994 Swedish pension reform

Haodong Qi, Jonas Helgertz, Tommy Bengtsson

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Abstract

This paper investigates whether the Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) scheme prolongs working life. The evidence from the 1994 Swedish pension reform shows a gender and socio-economic gradient in the labor supply responses to phasing in NDC. While the reform exerted a large and significant positive effect on the average retirement age among highly educated and skilled, it had little or negative effect on those with low level of human capital. And the overall effect is more profound among older men, compared to older women. These findings imply that the aggregate impact of NDC may only be positive if the average level of older workers’ education and skills is high, whereas it may be moderate (or even adverse) if the majority of the older workers are less educated and engage in low-skill jobs. This highlights the importance of incorporating the gender and socio-economic aspects into the evaluation of how a multi-pillar pension scheme, such as NDC, may increase the average working life expectancy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	250-267
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.11.001
State	Published - Nov 2018

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We acknowledge financial support from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 613247, Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies at Lund University, and the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr?det) via the Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE), grant registration number 349-2007-8701. We are grateful to Anna Amilon, David Canning, Kerstin Enflo, Alexia F?rnkranz-Prskawetz, Hans Groth, Jan Lanke, Jeff Neilson, Peng Nie, Albert Park, Miguel Sanchez, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, and Feng Wang for their helpful comments.

Funding Information:
We acknowledge financial support from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 613247 , Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies at Lund University, and the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) via the Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE), grant registration number 349-2007-8701. We are grateful to Anna Amilon, David Canning, Kerstin Enflo, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Hans Groth, Jan Lanke, Jeff Neilson, Peng Nie, Albert Park, Miguel Sanchez, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, and Feng Wang for their helpful comments.

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Keywords

Education
Occupation
Pension
Reform
Retirement

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Do notional defined contribution schemes prolong working life? Evidence from the 1994 Swedish pension reform

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