schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job …

to lift the age of mandatory retirement. Evidence on a longitudinal sample of pension plans from 1960 to the present … suggests:(1) During the 1960-70 period, Social Security increases generated changes in pensions favoring early retirement; and … retirement age …

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

Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due … to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship … between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent crisis. While …

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 …

Retirement Around the World. The project compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries and uses differences in their … retirement program provisions to explore the effect of SS on retirement and related questions. The first three phases of this … project document that: 1) incentives for retirement from SS are strongly correlated with labor force participation rates …

We examine the role of self-employment in retirement transitions using a panel of administrative tax data. We find that … the hazard of self-employment increases at popular retirement ages associated with Social Security eligibility …, particularly for those with greater retirement wealth. Late-career transitions to self-employment are associated with a larger drop …

This study documents an important role for Social Security income in workers' retirement timing. About 40 percent of … Social Security on retirement timing by comparing covered and non-covered teachers. Using individual-level data from the … American Community Survey, we find robust evidence of higher rates of retirement among covered teachers at Social Security …