La décision de partir en retraite fait intervenir de multiples facteurs dont il est difficile d’apprécier le caractère décisif. La connaissance des motifs de départ se pose avec une acuité particulière pour les individus qui, au terme de leur vie active, ont une durée d’assurance qui...

La décision de partir en retraite fait intervenir de multiples facteurs dont il est difficile d’apprécier le caractère décisif. La connaissance des motifs de départ se pose avec une acuité particulière pour les individus qui, au terme de leur vie active, ont une durée d’assurance qui...

Finland’s population is set to age rapidly in the coming decades. This will put pressure on public finances, while shrinking labour resources. Nonetheless, solutions exist to alleviate those pressures. Adjusting the pension age in line with the rise in life expectancy would reduce pension...

Restoring fiscal sustainability is a major challenge in Slovenia. Yet, the performance in terms of expenditure control is poor and public expenditure on social spending increased briskly during the crisis, significantly more than on average across the OECD. Despite recent progress in reforming...

To reduce the potential burden of the ageing population on public finances, the European Council set EU member states the target of increasing the senior employment rate. Considering that seniors play a major role in caring for dependent elderly people, it is appropriate to ask whether a policy...

Although elderly men and women share many of the same problems as they age, their lives are likely to follow different courses. Women are more likely than men to live into old old-age and are more likely to spend part of their young old-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this...

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

25 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall kommen Männer in Ost- und Westdeutschland in der wichtigsten Säule des deutschen Alterssicherungssystems auf ein vergleichbares Niveau. Im Durchschnitt übertreffen die Renten ostdeutscher Frauen die der Westdeutschen hingegen deutlich. Die geschlechtsspezifischen...

Now, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eastern and western German men are receiving similar state pensions, the main pillar in the system of old age provision in Germany. In contrast, the average pension paid to eastern German women far exceeds that of their western counterparts. A...

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the effect of cultural differences on this key...