work strongly in the direction of even shorter durations of retirement and longer durations of work. These new pressures … retirement years in large numbers, increasing the demand for older workers. On the supply side, there will be a large in increase … market scenarios. Delaying work-retirement transitions by even this amount would have large, positive economic and fiscal …

Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …

-durables significantly decreases at the time of retirement -- a finding that is inconsistent with the standard life-cycle model of … consumption if retirement is an anticipated event. This fall in expenditure has become known as the `retirement- consumption … fall in expenditures on groceries, food consumed at home and outside meals with retirement. The observed decline in …

In this paper we raise the question, as to whether retirement is lost as we currently know it in Canada. Here we look … at the retirement research according to the scope of retirement and the new retirement, possible theoretical developments …, the timing of transitions into retirement and life as a retiree including the quality of pensions. On the basis of this …

Does retirement represent a state of relative prosperity or a time of unanticipated economic hardship? To assess … whether individuals are successful in smoothing their well-being across the transition to retirement we analyse measures of …-reported change in their standard of living, financial security, and overall happiness over the transition to retirement. It is found …

Identifying the effect of the financial incentives created by social security systems on the retirement behaviour of … retirement probability by approximately 10 percent. In addition, we find that the social security reform induced significant … funding retirement. …

retirement income. More precisely, this paper, which is based on two Statistics Canada surveys (Survey of Consumer Finances and … retirement income sources has been realized, while discerning five distinct categories: net government transfer payments, CPP … retirement income have become substantially more diversified and privatized during the period under study. These adjustments are …

retirement and aging decisions including: time to retirement between spouses, financial planning, and health related retirement …

This multimethod study investigated the effect of involuntary retirement on retirement income. Using the General Social …, and ultimately, in their retirement income, whether personal or household. The men who retired because of ill health did … retirement they were more likely to rely on government transfer payments as a major source of income. Like the men, they were …