TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Giesecke, Matthias
AU  - Jaeger, Philipp
        TI  - Pension Incentives and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK
        PY  - 2021/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14469
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14469
        AB  - We study the labor supply implications of the Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering the entire population, we exploit variation at the newly created age-based eligibility threshold. Our results show a considerable and abrupt decline in labor force participation of 6.0 percentage points (13%) when older workers reach the eligibility age of 70. To mitigate the impact of population aging today, pension reforms aimed at increasing elderly labor supply, however, have to induce much larger behavioral responses than the OPA.

        KW  - regression discontinuity design
KW  - retirement
KW  - labor supply
KW  - old-age assistance
KW  - equity-efficiency trade-off
        ER  -