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Manoli and Weber 2009<br />

Use variation in retirement benefits as a function of job tenure in<br />

Austria to estimate Frisch elasticity<br />

Question: how much do people delay retirement in order to get higher<br />

(anticipated) benefits?<br />

Dataset: administrative panel for full population of Austria, 1980-2005<br />

Rough estimate of Frisch elasticity: 0.2 at annual level<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> ()<strong>Part</strong> 5: Income Taxation and Labor Supply 149 / 217

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