Gender Differences in Response to Early Retirement Incentives: Evidence from Turkey

On Friday November 22, Social Policy Forum will host a seminar on "Gender Differences in Response to Early Retirement Incentives: Evidence from Turkey" as part of "Social Policy and Development Seminar Series" jointly hosted with Development Analytics. For more information on the paper and bio of the presenter, please follow the Eventbrite link and RSVP for the seminar by Thursday, 21 November 5 PM.

Abstract:
"Gender Differences in Response to Early Retirement Incentives"
This paper explores the impact of a super early retirement incentive that allowed women and men to retire as early as 38 and 44 years old in Turkey. The legislation dated 1992 brought incentives to individuals who met several conditions to retire at a much earlier age than the conventional 60-65 years window but compliance was imperfect. Using the Statistics on Income and Living Condition (SILC) panel data between 2007-2012 and employing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design randomized on age, I find that the incentives led to a reduction of about 33.9 hours in weekly hours worked by women who are 39 to 48 years old in a bandwidth of three years around the eligible age for retirement. Moreover, I find that the entitlement for retirement reduced the probability of labor force participation of women by about 75 percentage points. While I do not find any impact on the hours supplied by men, I do find that that the labor force participation declined by about 26.6 percentage points.

About the Presenter: 
Güneş Aşık is an Assistant Professor of Economics at TOBB Economics and Technology University in Ankara and a Research Associate at Institut d'Étude du Développement Économique et Social Université 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris. Her research interests include development and labour economics, in particular female labour force participation and employment. She holds a MA degree in International Development (MPA-ID) from Harvard University and a PhD degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).On Friday November 22, Social Policy Forum will host a seminar on "Gender Differences in Response to Early Retirement Incentives: Evidence from Turkey" as part of "Social Policy and Development Seminar Series" jointly hosted with Development Analytics. For more information on the paper and bio of the presenter, please follow the Eventbrite link and RSVP for the seminar by Thursday, 21 November 5 PM.
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About the Social Policy and Development Seminar Series:
Hosted by Development Analytics and Bogazici University's Social Policy Forum, Social Policy and Development Seminar Series aim to bring together academics, researchers and students to stimulate a discussion about current research in social policies and global development.