This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in … from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a … structural" retirement model suggest that the long run effects of changes in pension plans and social security" account for about …

A structural dynamic model of retirement and saving is used to simulate the retirement effects of proposals made by the … reduce retirements at age 62 by roughly 4 percentage points, mitigating an 8.7 percentage point trend to earlier retirement …

examination of the potential magnitudes of such bequests and of their effect on retirement annuities and asset accumulation. The … most likely form of bequest, the preretirement bequest' made when employees die before normal retirement age, reduces the … funds available for post-retirement annuities by about 16 percent or, equivalently, requires a one-sixth increase in the …

The financing problems beleaguering the public pension system have again shifted the spotlight onto the retirement age …. This paper examines the impact of various reform options on the actual retirement choices of older workers. The paper …'. Our simulations show that the early-retirement pension adjustment factors introduced by the 1992 pension reform will, in …

pensions, and Social Security profiles available at alternative retirement ages. Then we examine four specific changes in the … structure of Social Security benefits: raising the normal retirement age, delaying the cost-of-living adjustment, lowering early … retirement benefits, and increasing late retirement payments. Behavioral parameters are estimated using an ordered logit model of …

We provide the incentive mechanism of the public pension on the retirement decisions made in the Japanese labor market … incentive mechanism of the public pension system in Japan affecting the retirement behavior has many things in common with those …

all retirement income is in the form of SS benefits; (4) the existence of an early retirement provision, which attracts no … actuarial penalty, greatly distorts choices in favor of early retirement. This paper addresses the above issue by first … accrual rate (i.e. the percentage change in Social Security Wealth) from postponing retirement and the implicit tax …

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

After presenting the Gruber-Wise analysis showing a strong effect on retirement of implicit taxes from pension rules …, with particular attention to increasing "the retirement age." Calculations are presented showing the decreases in benefits … for an increase in the normal retirement age in the US and the years of service for a full benefit in France …