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The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …
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assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male ….We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the …
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retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more than … half of women appear to be making standard retirement plans. At the same time, more than one in five individuals seem to … have delayed their retirement planning and approximately one in ten either do not know when they expect to retire or expect …
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We analyse the effects of pension reforms on the planned retirement age of women by exploiting within country variation … pension regime on retirement decisions is affected by the presence of gaps in careers of women. Binding constraints related to …
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We study the earnings responses to three large increases in employer Social Security contributions (SSCs) in France. We find evidence of full pass-through to workers in the case of a strong and salient relationship between contributions and expected benefits. By contrast, we find limited...
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We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clear-cut, but go in the same direction …
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retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension agreement with the employer and employee … the expected retirement age by 3.6 months for employees born between 1954 and 1959 and by 10.8 months for those born after … 1959. This increase is reflected in a clear shift in the retirement peak from age 65 to ages 66 and 67 for the respective …
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pension rights. We find that this exogenous shock to pension rights postpones expected retirement and increases participation …
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We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase … based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement program, which entailed that adjacent birth cohorts were exposed to … completely different work incentives from age 62. The reform removed a strict retirement earnings test such that pension wealth …
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Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We use panel data and a difference-in-difference approach to comprehensively analyse the direct and indirect effects of these reforms, investigating mechanisms for indirect effects....
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