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Retirement Plan Type and Employee Mobility

The Role of Selection

Gopi Shah Goda, Damon Jones and Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Journal of Human Resources, July 2017, 52 (3) 654-679; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.3.0315-6997R1
Gopi Shah Goda
Gopi Shah Goda is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Damon Jones is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and faculty research fellow at NBER. Colleen Flaherty Manchester is an associate professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
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Gopi Shah Goda is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Damon Jones is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and faculty research fellow at NBER. Colleen Flaherty Manchester is an associate professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
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Gopi Shah Goda is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Damon Jones is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and faculty research fellow at NBER. Colleen Flaherty Manchester is an associate professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
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Abstract

Relative to defined benefit (DB) plans, defined contribution (DC) plans have been linked to greater employee mobility. Because employees with different underlying mobility tendencies may sort across plans or firms, the relationship between plan type and mobility may be due to selection. We identify the role of selection by exploiting a natural experiment at an employer, in which the transition from a DB to a DC pension plan was affected by default rules. Using the default assignment as a source of exogenous variation in plan enrollment, we find that employees with higher mobility tendencies self-select into the DC plan.

  • Received March 2015.
  • Accepted March 2016.
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Gopi Shah Goda, Damon Jones, Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Journal of Human Resources Jul 2017, 52 (3) 654-679; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.52.3.0315-6997R1

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Gopi Shah Goda, Damon Jones, Colleen Flaherty Manchester
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