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In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...
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In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to 61 (Cribb, Emmerson and Tetlow, 2013). This short paper incorporates more recent data, now available up to March 2014, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the...
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such changes. Retirement has increasingly become a decision made jointly by a couple rather than individually by one … retirement decision despite age differences between partners. This joint determination of retirement has important implications …
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We examine ill-health retirement of police officers in England and Wales between 2002-3 and 2009-10. Differences in ill …-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities- impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially among …
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We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of (Continental) European males … the cross country and time variation in employment protection legislation and minimum retirement age to study whether … policies that have increased minimum retirement age and reduced the strictness of employment protection legislation have raised …
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containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The … effect towards later retirement through lower replacement levels, it also implied a lower price on leaving the labor market … measured by Social Security Wealth, defined at each hypothetical retirement age, and a variable measuring the implicit tax …
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Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The project was launched in the mid 1990s and was motivated by decades of … program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly correlated with the labor force behavior of … reforms of retirement incentives and employ micro-econometric methods in order to study whether the correlation between …
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Despite its centrality in monetary policy, communication is not a focus in social security reform. We investigate the potential for active communication to dissipate apparently widespread public confusion about the future of social security. We implement a simple information treatment in which...
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standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
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, secondly, individuals face a voting process on the legal retirement age. The results suggest that governments attempting to … postpone the legal retirement age should increase the degree of intra-generational redistribution of the pension system in … some degree of redistribution to that aim. -- legal retirement age ; voting process ; degree of redistribution …
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