TY  - JOUR
AU  - Crawford, Rowena
AU  - Disney, Richard
TI  - Reform of Ill-health Retirement Benefits for Police in England and Wales: The roles of National Policy and Local Finance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 18479
PY  - 2012
Y2  - October 2012
DO  - 10.3386/w18479
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18479
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18479.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Rowena Crawford
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmount Street London WC1E 7AE
E-Mail: rowena_c@ifs.org.uk

Richard Disney
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmount Street
London
WC1E 7AE
England
Tel: +44 207 291 4800
E-Mail: richard_d@ifs.org.uk
M1  - published as Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney. "Reform of Police Pensions in England and Wales," in Robert Clark, Joshua Rauh, and Mark Duggan, editors, "Retirement Benefits for State and Local Employees: Designing Pension Plans for the Twenty-First Century" Elsevier, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 116  (2014)

M3  - presented at "State and Local Pensions Conference", August 17-18, 2012
AB  - We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009-10. Differences in ill-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill-health retirement from central government to local police authorities - occurred in the mid-2000s. We show these measures impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially on forces with above-average rates of retirement. We find that residual differences in post-2006 ill-health retirement rates across forces are related to their differential capacities to raise revenue from local property taxes.
ER  -