This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

This paper constructs a structural retirement model with hyperbolic preferences and uses it to estimate the effect of … substantial amounts of wealth for retirement. We find it is frequently difficult to distinguish empirically between models with … the two types of preferences on the basis of asset accumulation paths or consumption paths around the period of retirement …

Are retirement savings sufficient to finance a good pension income? This highly uncertain and subjective dimension of …

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth … to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no …

Many of Asia‟s retirement-income systems are ill prepared for the rapid population ageing that will occur over the next … ensure that they are financially sustainable and provide adequate retirement incomes. In some countries – China, Vietnam …, Pakistan, Chinese Taipei – pension levels are high relative to earnings. Early retirement ages, especially for women, provide …

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time- and age profiles of … wages, taxes, and the public pension system. The early retirement provision in most pension systems acts as a trap, inducing … most workers to retire well before the normal retirement age. Simulations show that pension reform must be drastic for it …