Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The project was launched in the mid 1990s and was motivated by decades of … program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly correlated with the labor force behavior of … reforms of retirement incentives and employ micro-econometric methods in order to study whether the correlation between …

accumulated for retirement. This paper addresses three important adjustments channels to dampen these detrimental effects of … ageing: investing abroad, endogenous human capital formation and increasing the retirement age. Although non of these … retirement age has strong effects. Under these adjustments maximum welfare losses of demographic change for households alive in …

retirement. Regarding women, whether public pension rules play a role is unclear. Most probably, the secular change of women …

benefit generosity and increased the retirement age due to demographic pressures. This paper investigates whether these … mechanical effect, which keeps retirement probabilities constant and only considers changes in benefit calculation. The second … component is the behavioral effect, which describes how SSW differs because of altered retirement probabilities. Our findings …

Germans retire early. On the one hand, early retirement is very costly and amplifies the burden which the German public … pension system has to carry due to population aging. On the other hand, however, early retirement is also seen as a much …This paper investigates the relation between early retirement and well-being using the GSOEP panel data. The general …

After two decades of reforms that have tightened eligibility for early retirement and the generosity of social security … payments, the German government has begun to turn back time and re-introduce more generous disability and early retirement … benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this …