How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …

during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question about what this standard should be … Netherlands. Key findings include the following. Adequate levels of retirement spending exceed 80 percent of working life spending … ; retirement saving ; cross-country survey studies …

of leaving to early retirement. The wage is not affected. …

examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age … retirement. However, well designed education programs will keep more workers in highly productive activities at the end of their …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime … utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life …