A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth … of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives … on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the …

so using information on older males from the Health and Retirement Study over the 1980-1997 period to calculate the …

government budget. I provide an overview of the interaction between these" transfer programs and retirement behavior. I begin by …

participation and benefit receipt. Most of the attention is given to the interaction between retirement behavior and the various … the actual pattern of early and normal retirement of Belgian older workers …

programs often provide generous retirement benefits at young ages. Also, the provisions of these programs often imply large … financial penalties on earnings beyond the social security early retirement age.Furthermore, in many countries disability and … unemployment programs effectively provide early retirement benefits before the official social security early retirement age. We …

A structural retirement model is estimated using data for tenured, male faculty employed in the 1970's at 26 high … quality private colleges and universities. Simulations of raising and then abolishing the mandatory retirement age suggest … early retirement incentive programs would offset only a small fraction of the increase in work due to changes in mandatory …

statistics analysis. Section 3 evaluates the effects on the equilibrium retirement age, section 4 modifies the benefits formula … to depend on retirement age and section 5 examines the wealth-income ratio effect. Section 6 introduces the …

Study of Income Dynamics, we follow a cohort of white married males through their sixties to estimate a model of retirement … behavior. Using several definitions of retirement suggested in the literature, the results suggest that the two key policy … influence on retirement decisions. For example, our results suggest that a decrease in the implicit tax rate on earnings from …

Retirement Around the World. This project, which compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries, was launched in the mid … project document that social security program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly … affect retirement, whether there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment, and whether older individuals are …