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 …

to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

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 …

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

retirement and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of prime …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly … systems ¨C with a focus on retirement. The paper argues that such effects are non©\negligible and are likely to have major …