with annuities financed by Personal Retirement Accounts. We showed that such a combination could maintain the level of … retirement income projected in current Social Security law while avoiding a future increase in the payroll tax rate. The current … paper extends the earlier analysis in four ways: (1) We now specify that the funds deposited in the Personal Retirement …

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 …

After presenting the Gruber-Wise analysis showing a strong effect on retirement of implicit taxes from pension rules …, with particular attention to increasing "the retirement age." Calculations are presented showing the decreases in benefits … for an increase in the normal retirement age in the US and the years of service for a full benefit in France …

A structural dynamic model of retirement and saving is used to simulate the retirement effects of proposals made by the … reduce retirements at age 62 by roughly 4 percentage points, mitigating an 8.7 percentage point trend to earlier retirement …

"This ninth volume of the International Social Security series, which studies the social security and retirement … participation rates. Older women's participation has increased dramatically as well. While better health, more education, and …

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in … from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a … structural" retirement model suggest that the long run effects of changes in pension plans and social security" account for about …

We analyze older individuals' debt and financial vulnerability using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS …

social security incentives on retirement behavior in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands …