We analyze the effects of increasing the retirement age in two economies with overlapping generations and within cohort … defined benefit to a defined contribution. We find that if increase in the retirement age is phased in a way that allows …

Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …

reduction. The elimination of other early retirement scheme in 2012 and slowly rising real wages made the program even more … popular: the lifetime benefit was maximized at the earliest retirement. Since 2016, real wages have been growing rather fast …; making delay attractive. Without being recognized, Female40 has become a boomerang: immediate retirement from 2014 causes …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …