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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 …
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We show how the economic incentives to remain in the labor force induced by Sweden's public old-age pension system and disability insurance program have changed between 1980 and 2015. Based on earnings histories for different hypothetical individuals corresponding to groups by gender and...
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We consider the retirement behavior of civilian employees of the United States government. Unlike previous studies … and employer-provided pensions for which employees are (or ultimately will be) eligible. These data permit us to specify … the financial aspects of individual retirement decisions with a reasonable degree of precision. A large fraction of civil …
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respect to work, retirement, Social Security, and age discrimination law. We present estimates of poverty by age and sex … summarize research on how older women were differentially negatively impacted by the elimination of Social Security's Retirement …
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In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …
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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 …
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all retirement income is in the form of SS benefits; (4) the existence of an early retirement provision, which attracts no … actuarial penalty, greatly distorts choices in favor of early retirement. This paper addresses the above issue by first … accrual rate (i.e. the percentage change in Social Security Wealth) from postponing retirement and the implicit tax …
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containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The … effect towards later retirement through lower replacement levels, it also implied a lower price on leaving the labor market … measured by Social Security Wealth, defined at each hypothetical retirement age, and a variable measuring the implicit tax …
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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 …
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so using information on older males from the Health and Retirement Study over the 1980-1997 period to calculate the …
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