TY  - JOUR
AU  - Palme, Marten
AU  - Svensson, Ingemar
TI  - Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6137
PY  - 1997
Y2  - August 1997
DO  - 10.3386/w6137
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6137
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6137.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Mårten Palme
Department of Economics
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
SWEDEN
E-Mail: Marten.Palme@ne.su.se

Ingemar Svensson
Swedish Pensions Agency
Box 38190
100 64 Stockholm
SWEDEN
E-Mail: Ingemar.Svensson@pensionsmyndigheten.se
M1  - published as Marten Palme, lngemar Svensson. "Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden," in Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors, "Social Security and Retirement around the World" University of Chicago Press (1999)

AB  - This paper provides an overview of the Swedish social security system and its impact on individual retirement behavior. First, we give some historical facts, as well as a more detailed description of the current situation, of labor market behavior of older persons.  Second, we describe the social security system. We also describe the different occupational pension schemes, which have an increasing importance.  Finally, we show the results from a simulation, where we have used the earnings path of several representative workers to calculate the implicit tax (or subsidy) rate on additional work after age 55 generated by the social security system in interaction with occupational pensions and income taxes as well as housing allowances.  We find that the observed labor market behavior of older men is in accordance with the economic incentives generated by the social security system and in particular with the occupational pension scheme for blue collar workers.
ER  -