"contributions" of employees and employers to the social security retirement and survivors fund …

that Social Security's induced retirement motive is much more important for explaining differences among European countries … retirement, its generational incidence can be very different than the incidence of a pyramid scheme, even for those countries … where the induced retirement motive is not the dominant one. The possibility of induced retirement also makes it difficult …

delaying benefit claim for a period of time after retirement is optimal in a wide variety of cases and that gains from delay …

programs with retirement incentives are larger and that the old are more single-minded' in their politics, implications which …

This paper addresses two questions:(1) Are older persons' retirement ages significantly affected by the opportunities … for income from earnings,private pensions, and Social Security and for leisure at alternative retirement ages?; and (2 …) How large are the estimated responses? Our approach to modeling the retirement problem is a forward-looking one, in which …

The paper is an empirical cross-section study of the retirement decisions of American white men between the ages of 58 …). The model is reasonably successful in predicting retirement decisions, and casts serious doubt on previous claims that the … retirement …

Evidence from different sources shows that spouses' retirement decisions are correlated. Retirement policies affecting … joint features in modeling retirement. This paper studies a structural collective model of labor supply and retirement of … relies on stated preferences data collected in the Health and Retirement Study. Respondents were asked to choose between …

Most state and local retirement plans strive for full funding, at least by actuarial standards. Funding measured at …

example, we find that any effort to promote opportunities for partial retirement as a means to increase overall work is likely …This paper advances the specification and estimation of models of retirement and saving in two earner families. The … complications introduced by the interaction of retirement decisions by husbands and wives have led researchers to adopt a number of …

consumer who can select her hours of work and also her retirement age. Using a realistically-calibrated model with stochastic … mortality and uncertain labor income, we extend the investment universe to include not only stocks and bonds, but also survival … work effort by the young; and markedly enhances lifetime welfare. Also, introducing annuities leads to earlier retirement …