Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries undergo periodic medical reviews to determine if they continue to be eligible for disability benefits. We examine how these reviews affect beneficiary well-being by using administrative data to track the earnings of beneficiaries for up to 5 years after their reviews. We estimate that a sizeable percentage of beneficiaries would work if their benefits were ceased in a medical review. However, many appear to be unable to maintain employment: only one in three would have earnings over the full follow-up period. Further, far fewer would reach any of several measures of earnings sufficiency.

The annual EISS Conference in 2016 will be held in Oslo on Thursday, September 22 and Friday, September 23, and the topic for the 2016 Conference is "Social Security and the changing Concept of Work". The Conference fee is €50 for EISS Members, €75 for non-members. PhD-students should not pay the fee.

To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on administrative pension data, there was no significant delay in the age of first pension receipt.

Evaluering av pensjonsreformen arrangerer nordisk konferanse på pensjonsområdet. Formålet med konferansen er formidling av forskning og dialog rundt sentrale tema på pensjonsfeltet.

In aging societies, information on how to reform a pension system is essential to policy makers. This study scrutinizes the introduction of early retirement disincentives by a major pension reform in Germany.

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners. Using a stylized life-cycle model, we derive hypotheses on the behaviour of the two types.

The Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index, now in its seventh year, provides a comparison of the many and varied systems around the world. This year the index also analyses trends in sustainability indicators over recent years.

Forskningsrådet holdt formidlingsseminar for evalueringen av pensjonsreformen (EVA PEN) 5.oktober. 

In several OECD countries pension benefits are taxed away if retirees continue working and receive earnings that cross a threshold. Recently governments started to increase these earnings thresholds for working pensioners.