题 目：提高退休年龄能够促进老龄人口的就业么？

讲座人：Josef Zweimuller教授，瑞士苏黎世大学

主持人：沈凯玲助理教授，WISE

时 间：2011年11月8日，19:15-20:30

地 点：经济楼D110

摘要：

本文研究最早退休年龄的提高对老龄人口的劳动力市场上的行为的影响。在2000年到2006年期间，奥地利政府将男性的提早退休年龄逐渐从60岁提高到62.2岁，将女性的提早退休年龄逐渐从55岁提高到57.2岁。使用奥地利私营部门所有员工的行政数据，我们的实证分析显示这一政策调整使受影响的男性职工的退休率下降了19%，使受影响的女性职工的退休率下降了25%。伴随着退休率下降，不仅男性的就业率上升了7%，女性的就业率上升了10%，而且该政策对相关人群在失业保险项目的使用上也产生了连带效应。具体而言，男性的失业率上升了10%，女性的失业率上升了11%。与之相对应，该政策对相关人群申请残疾或部分退休福利的比例的影响很小。

【Nov 8th, 2011】”WISE-IZA” Seminar Series, 2011 Fall No.7 (Total No.73)——Prof. Josef Zweimuller (University of Zurich)

Title:Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?

Speaker: Prof. Josef Zweimuller (University of Zurich)

Organizer: Kailing Shen (WISE, Xiamen University)

Time: 19:15-20:30, Tuesday, Nov 8^th, 2011

Venue: Room D110, Economics Building

Abstract：

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-sector employees, the results from the empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 percentage points among men and 10 percentage points among women, but had also an important spillover effects into the unemployment insurance program. Specifically, the unemployment rate increased by 10 percentage points among men and 11 percentage points among women. In contrast, the policy change had only a small impact on the share of individuals claiming disability or partial retirement benefits.