Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World

Axel Börsch-Supan is director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, professor of the economics of aging at the Technical University of Munich, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Courtney C. Coile is professor of economics at Wellesley College and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Axel Börsch-Supan and Courtney C. Coile1. Social Security Incentives in Belgium: An Analysis of Four Decades of Change Anne-Lore Fraikin, Alain Jousten, and Mathieu Lefebvre2. Retirement Incentives and Canada’s Social Security Programs Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle3. Labor Force Exit in Denmark, 1980–2016: Impact from Changes in Incentives Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Malene Kallestrup-Lamb, and Peder J. Pedersen4. Workers’ Employment Rates and Pension Reforms in France: The Role of Implicit Labor Taxation Didier Blanchet, Antoine Bozio, Simon Rabaté, and Muriel Roger5. Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Germany Axel Börsch-Supan, Johannes Rausch, and Nicolas Goll6. The Evolution of Incentives for Retirement in Italy, 1980–2015 Agar Brugiavini, Raluca Elena Buia, Giacomo Pasini, and Guglielmo Weber7. Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan Takashi Oshio, Akiko S. Oishi, and Satoshi Shimizutani8. Social Security Programs and Employment at Older Ages in the Netherlands Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn, and Adriaan Kalwij9. Trends in Employment and Social Security Incentives in the Spanish Pension System, 1980–2016 Pilar García-Gómez, Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall-Castelló10. Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden Mårten Palme and Lisa Laun11. A Lifetime of Changes: State Pensions and Work Incentives at Older Ages in the UK, 1948–2018 James Banks and Carl Emmerson12. The Evolution of Retirement Incentives in the US Courtney C. CoileContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index