Over the last thirty years pathways to retirement have changed substantially in the UK. They have been dominated by …. At the end of the period the direct route from work to retirement was increasingly more common. General economic …

Choices regarding the disposition of wealth at retirement can have substantial implications for retirement income … find that these groups of retirees report very different levels of well-being in retirement …

other retirement income schemes. Using an option value approach, we find that individuals' labor force participation is …

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 …

the fact that the state retirement pension does not become available to men until age 65, half of men aged 60-64 were … economically inactive in the mid 1990s. The main element of the state retirement pension is flat rate, and for most people is … earned as a result of extra contribu- tions. Overall the state retirement pension system offers no incentives for people to …