Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …

If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one’s previous employment …

work strongly in the direction of even shorter durations of retirement and longer durations of work. These new pressures … retirement years in large numbers, increasing the demand for older workers. On the supply side, there will be a large in increase … market scenarios. Delaying work-retirement transitions by even this amount would have large, positive economic and fiscal …

In this paper we raise the question, as to whether retirement is lost as we currently know it in Canada. Here we look … at the retirement research according to the scope of retirement and the new retirement, possible theoretical developments …, the timing of transitions into retirement and life as a retiree including the quality of pensions. On the basis of this …

Does retirement represent a state of relative prosperity or a time of unanticipated economic hardship? To assess … whether individuals are successful in smoothing their well-being across the transition to retirement we analyse measures of …-reported change in their standard of living, financial security, and overall happiness over the transition to retirement. It is found …

Identifying the effect of the financial incentives created by social security systems on the retirement behaviour of … retirement probability by approximately 10 percent. In addition, we find that the social security reform induced significant … funding retirement. …