How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly …, many studies of migration's impact on pensions often focus on aggregate outcomes - system sustainability or distributive … systems - with a focus on retirement. The paper argues that such effects are non-negligible and are likely to have major …

myopia may justify public pensions but never alongside positive private savings. With sufficient myopia, co-existence of … positive optimal pensions and positive private saving is possible if the real interest rate on saving evolves endogenously, as …

Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand …-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement … based on international microdata covering 19 industrialized countries. The results indicate that generous early retirement …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes … pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this, one has to distinguish between public and private pensions. The … design of public pensions cannot be separated from the one of taxation. Regarding private pensions, the key issue is whether …

longer and birth rates have declined. Postponing the full retirement age (FRA), when retirees are entitled to full pension …

pension fund deficits do not increase. Workers can willingly postpone retirement in exchange for increased final salaries and … pensions. Present and future public subsidies may at the same time be reduced. We propose a quantitative analysis of the 2008 … reform of the Paris Metro pensions. Focusing on the case of train drivers, we show that the reform should save public funds …