Working Paper: NBER ID: w18479
Authors: Rowena Crawford; Richard Disney
Abstract: We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009-10. Differences in ill-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill-health retirement from central government to local police authorities - occurred in the mid-2000s. We show these measures impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially on forces with above-average rates of retirement. We find that residual differences in post-2006 ill-health retirement rates across forces are related to their differential capacities to raise revenue from local property taxes.
Keywords: illhealth retirement; police pensions; local finance
JEL Codes: H75; J26; J45
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| central government policies (H59) | illhealth retirement rates (J26) |
| 2006 reforms (E69) | illhealth retirement rates (J26) |
| local revenue-raising capacity (H71) | post-reform illhealth retirement rates (J26) |
| 2006 reforms (E69) | retirement policies management (J26) |