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Prior to 1987, retirement benefits under the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) were payable only at age 65. Amendments to the … or late take up. The focus of this paper is the health and welfare implications of these flexible retirement provisions … dynamics of transition from labour force to retirement in the Canadian context. Investigating the factors influencing the …
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Like most other developed nations, Canada has a large income security system for retirement that provides significant … of appropriate data. We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security (IS … IS system have large and statistically significant impacts on retirement. This suggests that program reform can play some …
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: financial, personal and familial. Catalytic financial influences included employer programs and enrolment in retirement courses …
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for the “average worker” after retirement. While we know a lot about the first issue, the second has received less …-income retirees to maintain their pre-retirement living standards. However, we also show that there is considerable variation in … replacement rates. By age 75, about a quarter of middle-income persons had retirement incomes of less than 60 percent of the …
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point where retirement and replacement become the major concerns. Looking at the management hierarchy within Statistics …
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Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …
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If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one’s previous employment …
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In tracing the history of retirement in Canada it is evident that retirement is a social institution that reflects the … welfare state. It is also the history of men's retirement, not women's retirement. With the increase in the labour force … participation rates of women, it is only recently that retirement has become a meaningful concept to apply to some women. Indeed …
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independence and exclusion restrictions. These results can be applied to many retirement and aging decisions including: time to … retirement between spouses, financial planning, and health related retirement decisions. …
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period before retirement. …
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