Roman Raab is a post-doctoral researcher in the economics of ageing. He joined the ICSG in 2009. Previously, he was a graduate research assistant at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States. There, he received his PhD in Economics in August 2008. His dissertation project was about the financial incentives of retirement embedded in the Austrian pay-as-you-go pension system. Using micro data from the Austrian Social Security Administration, he analysed the response of older workers to changes in financial incentives as well as the impact of various pension reform scenarios on retirement behaviour.

Roman Raab is particularly interested in the economics of ageing, health economics, applied microeconomics, public finance, labor economics, and actuarial economics. His major research themes include the impact of retirement incentives, health, and the joint decision making among couples on the decision to retire from the labor force. He analyses new data for Ireland coming from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Using these data, he is working on the assessment of why older workers retire (early) in Ireland.

Selected Publications