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Raising the Age of Retirement: An Example of Political Ratchet Effect

18 Pages Posted: 8 Mar 2012

See all articles by Mathieu Lefèbvre

Mathieu Lefèbvre

University of Strasbourg

Sergio Perelman

University of Liège - Department of Economics

Pierre Pestieau

University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Jean-Pierre Vidal

European Central Bank (ECB)

Date Written: March 31, 2005

Abstract

Political resistance to a progressive increase in the retirement age is widespread in a number of European countries. We present a simple model explaining why such a reform can be opposed even when it is profitable to a majority of citizens. Then, we try to explain the existence of wide differences in the average length of retirement across countries and over time.

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Lefèbvre, Mathieu and Perelman, Sergio and Pestieau, Pierre and Vidal, Jean-Pierre, Raising the Age of Retirement: An Example of Political Ratchet Effect (March 31, 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2017711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2017711

Mathieu Lefèbvre (Contact Author)

University of Strasbourg ( email )

Strasbourg
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Sergio Perelman

University of Liège - Department of Economics ( email )

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Pierre Pestieau

University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics ( email )

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

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Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) ( email )

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Louvain la Neuve
Belgium

Jean-Pierre Vidal

European Central Bank (ECB) ( email )

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Frankfurt am Main, 60314
Germany

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