Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P … -- Retirement saving -- The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti …

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 …

unemployment programs effectively provide early retirement benefits before the official social security early retirement age. We … 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 …

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 …