This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent … studies highlight gradual retirement as an attractive option to older workers as they approach full retirement. However, it is … not clear whether phasing or cold turkey makes for a happier retirement. Using longitudinal data from the Health and …

just those at the point of retirement, this approach can provide additional insights on the efficacy of pension systems in … individuals above the 60% relative poverty threshold throughout retirement. Our simulations suggest that the gradual negative … lengthening of the time spent in receipt of retirement benefits. The consumption smoothing function of state pensions has declined …

deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response … to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …

We investigate the effect of an acute health shock on retirement among elderly male workers in Denmark, 1991-1999, and … in particular whether various welfare state programs and institutions impinge on the retirement effect. The results show … that an acute health event increases the retirement chances of elderly male workers by 8%, and that this increase in the …

This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent … studies highlight gradual retirement as an attractive option to older workers as they approach full retirement. However, it is … not clear whether phasing or cold turkey makes for a happier retirement. Using longitudinal data from the Health and …

identifies how accumulated assets can be used optimally throughout retirement to produce life-long income when required, to make … do this using a SPEEDOMETER (or Spending Optimally Throughout Retirement) retirement expenditure plan which employs … degree of flexibility in managing the run-down of retirement assets; (3) capital protection in the form of ‘money …

at older ages. I assess my conjecture quantitatively with a life cycle general equilibrium model of retirement. At ages …

Many of Asia‟s retirement-income systems are ill prepared for the rapid population ageing that will occur over the next … ensure that they are financially sustainable and provide adequate retirement incomes. In some countries – China, Vietnam …, Pakistan, Chinese Taipei – pension levels are high relative to earnings. Early retirement ages, especially for women, provide …