This study examines the impact of social security on the retirement of married men aged 60-70 years. The empirical … retiring) denoted SSW. This variable measures social security's effect on retirement. The estimated effects are significant and … considerable. When SSW in-creases from $35,000 to $55,000 the probability of retirement rises by .15 for 62-64 year olds relative …

Retirement Around the World. This project, which compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries, was launched in the mid … project document that social security program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly … affect retirement, whether there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment, and whether older individuals are …

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

the fact that the state retirement pension does not become available to men until age 65, half of men aged 60-64 were … economically inactive in the mid 1990s. The main element of the state retirement pension is flat rate, and for most people is … earned as a result of extra contribu- tions. Overall the state retirement pension system offers no incentives for people to …

A structural retirement model is estimated using data for tenured, male faculty employed in the 1970's at 26 high … quality private colleges and universities. Simulations of raising and then abolishing the mandatory retirement age suggest … early retirement incentive programs would offset only a small fraction of the increase in work due to changes in mandatory …

In recent decades, many states have reduced future retirement benefits for newly hired teachers. We estimate that in … 2020 the average initial monthly retirement benefit, for teachers retiring with 30 years of service, is 11.2 percent lower …

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P … -- Retirement saving -- The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti …