Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The project was launched in the mid 1990s and was motivated by decades of … program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly correlated with the labor force behavior of … reforms of retirement incentives and employ micro-econometric methods in order to study whether the correlation between …

social security reforms. We further estimated the association of ITAX with an individual's decisions concerning retirement … forms on retirement based on the estimated regression parameters. The results showed that a higher ITAX drove individuals …

retirement. Regarding women, whether public pension rules play a role is unclear. Most probably, the secular change of women …

Germans retire early. On the one hand, early retirement is very costly and amplifies the burden which the German public … pension system has to carry due to population aging. On the other hand, however, early retirement is also seen as a much …This paper investigates the relation between early retirement and well-being using the GSOEP panel data. The general …

After two decades of reforms that have tightened eligibility for early retirement and the generosity of social security … payments, the German government has begun to turn back time and re-introduce more generous disability and early retirement … benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this …

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … the OV model proposed by Stock and Wise (1990a, 1990b), we found that the probability of retirement has a negative and … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …

countries that have high take up rates, inducing early retirement …