This paper analyses how spouses in older couples react to `shocks' or `surprises' in their partner's labour income …. Partner's death does not have statistically significant labour supply effects. Negative income shocks due to other reasons …

health status, demographics, employment prospects, labour-force attachment, and income sources are investigated in order to … spans the period from 1982 to 1994. The results of the analysis indicate that income amounts from various sources have a … likely is exit. It appears that early exit to retired-worker benefits is more likely for: 1) low labour income earners and …

Like most other developed nations, Canada has a large income security system for retirement that provides significant … of appropriate data. We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security (IS …

Post-war policies and subsequent debates had two policy targets: reducing old-age poverty and enhancing income security …) to examine income replacement rates of older Canadians relative to their economic status when they were in their mid …-fifties. In 2005, the replacement income of retired individuals in their mid-seventies who were in the middle of the income …

directions of reform, and to consider how to implement them, the conference on “Private Pensions and Income Security in Old Age … pension regulations, poverty and income security in old age, policy options, reform obstacles, and international perspectives …

- As part of a larger study of involuntary retirement and its impact on income, in-depth interviews were carried out with … while the "planners" reported adequate income; (4) post caregiving survival strategies for those in poverty included …

restructure the welfare state without running the risk of electoral failure. Finally, it suggests that collusion likely explains …

generations and will need to be reformulated, enabling more people to earn income well beyond current retirement ages. …