By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age … are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for … individual health. Using the exogenous variation in minimum retirement age induced by a sequence of Italian pension reforms …

This study looks at factors affecting the decision of early retirement for Egyptian government sector employees. The … men; men plan to work after their early retirement; the presence of the working wife has a positive effect on her husband … the announcement of the plans; the question of voluntary vs. compulsory early retirement plans; the potential outcome of …

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 …

pension system: first, raising the legal retirement age to 67 automatically leads to lower pensions. Second, the average level …In the public debate on old-age poverty in Germany there are three often-heard preconceptions about the statutory … of statutory pension is lower in Eastern Germany. Third, an expansion of the social contribution ceiling would improve …

than the former system. I study whether the reform has led to delayed retirement by examining the retirement patterns of … retirement hazard among latter born cohorts, who were more affected by the reform. This implies that retirement is delayed. Most … of the decline occurs among public sector employees. -- Retirement ; Labour supply ; Pension Reform …

This paper discusses the efficiency of a pay-as-you-go pension reform by introducing a child benefit in an endogenous … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …