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Pension Knowledge and the Effectiveness of Pension Reforms

Authors: Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ferrari, Irene; Pettinicchi, Yuri;

Pension Knowledge and the Effectiveness of Pension Reforms

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This study examines how knowledge about institutional settings and their reform affects the effectiveness of those reforms. We examine this question in the context of social security, the largest social insurance program in Europe, by exploiting time and cross-country variation in pension regulations in seven European countries. We show that many individuals are not well informed about the pension rules applicable to them and that individuals with lower education and lower numeracy skills fail to update their knowledge when affected by pension reforms. Moreover, the effect of pension reforms on individuals‘ labour supply decisions is driven by well-informed individuals. This is the first study to separate information gathering from labour supply decision making, thus providing a causal link between the knowledge of pension rules and individuals‘ labour supply behaviour. Pension policies could potentially be more effective if individuals were adequately informed. German Abstract: In dieser Studie untersuchen wir, wie sich der individuelle Wissensstand uber gesetzliche Regelungen und deren Reformen auf die Wirksamkeit dieser Reformen auswirkt. Wir untersuchen diese Frage im Kontext von Rentensystemen (den grosten Sozialversicherungszweigen in Europa), indem wir die Variation in den Rentensystemen in sieben europaischen Landern analysieren. Wir zeigen, dass viele Personen unzureichend uber die fur sie geltenden Rentenregelungen informiert sind. Insbesondere Personen mit niedrigem Bildungsstand und geringen Rechenkenntnissen erkennen nicht, wenn sich durch Reformen Anderungen fur sie ergeben. Reformeffekte auf das Arbeitsangebot werden masgeblich von gut informierten Einzelpersonen getrieben. Dies ist die erste Studie, die Informationsgewinnung und Entscheidungen uber das Arbeitsangebot voneinander trennt. So konnen wir den kausalen Effekt von Wissensstand uber Rentensysteme auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebotsverhalten bestimmen. Rentenpolitik konnte effektiver sein, wenn Individuen besser informiert wurden.

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