assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male … of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that substantially ….We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the …

assume responsibility for a greater share of their future retirement saving and health and long-term care costs. Financial … financial literacy is an important determinant of financial protection in the older pre-retirement population in Ireland. Using … with higher total household wealth, lower financial stress and higher expected retirement income. We find little evidence …

future employment. Exploiting across cohort variation in expected pension wealth induced by a 3-year lift in early retirement … age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …

Concerns over the adequacy of low and middle-income earner contributions to retirement plans have led governments to …

We study an OLG model with child policies and a PAYG pension with endogenous retirement and fertility. The result of … of labor in old age. Fertility should be taxed or incentivized depending on whether there is full or partial retirement …

We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …

-calculation window, combined with the discrete change in the probability of retirement at the minimum retirement age. We find that … retirement age, reaching a 3% increase on average. This is not the case for employees of large firms, where earnings …

Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline …. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities …

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social …