Research Interest
Institutional and labour demand side determinants of retirement decisions in Spain: The role of partial retirement
 
The focus of this research is to determine and quantify the factors influencing the different evolution in partial and early retirement in Spain experienced since the year 2000. These factors range from legal and institutional factors to individual-specific determinants to employer, firm and industry characteristics but this thesis will only focus on institutional and firm specific features.
In Spain partial retirement was introduced in 2001 and it represents a very good example of maintaining people active in the labour market at older ages as it has been rather successful in attracting retirees since its introduction.
However, it remains important to understand the incentives deriving from the pension system and from the labor demand side underlying these retirement decisions in order to devise effective pension policy reforms.

The dataset used will be the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales, MCVL) which is a microeconomic data set based on administrative records and contains over one million people. Even if the sample refers only to people who were working or retired during the years 2004 and 2005, it reproduces the working histories for everybody in the sample.