Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …

the one hand and old-age labor force participation or early retirement on the other hand. We explore how both are linked … childhood environment and early retirement by analyzing the retirement behavior of cohorts born during World War I, a period of … harsh living conditions among the civilian population in Germany. Our data show higher early retirement rates among those …

accumulated for retirement. This paper addresses three important adjustments channels to dampen these detrimental effects of … ageing: investing abroad, endogenous human capital formation and increasing the retirement age. Although non of these … retirement age has strong effects. Under these adjustments maximum welfare losses of demographic change for households alive in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

with annuities financed by Personal Retirement Accounts. We showed that such a combination could maintain the level of … retirement income projected in current Social Security law while avoiding a future increase in the payroll tax rate. The current … paper extends the earlier analysis in four ways: (1) We now specify that the funds deposited in the Personal Retirement …