identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … and that rural residents continue to work until advanced ages. Differences in access to generous pensions and economic …

It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while … the labour market. However, the regulations have become more restrictive in the last decade and early retirement usually … leads to a lower pension. In this article, we map options for early retirement in other countries. We have found five main …

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 …

Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years … well-informed about pensions. However, there are many reasons to believe that individuals may not be well-informed due to … the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions … equity, and reduce labor market distortions. We illustrate this type of integration with the case of old-age pensions which …

We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …