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 …

"This ninth volume of the International Social Security series, which studies the social security and retirement …

on national budgets will increase substantially. In Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World, Jonathan … Gruber, David A. Wise, and experts in many countries examine the consequences of reforming retirement benefits in a dozen …

This paper uses the receipt of an inheritance to measure the effect of wealth shocks on retirement. Using the Health … and Retirement Study (HRS), we first document that inheritance receipt is common among older workers - one in five … receipt is associated with a significant increase in the probability of retirement. In particular, we find that receiving an …

A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth … of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives … on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the …

Beginning in September 2003, the Retirement Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research conducted a …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI programs. The …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). We find that downturns in the labor market increase retirement … response to an economic downturn once workers become SS-eligible, suggesting that retirement benefits may help alleviate the …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … a household context. This paper explores how husbands' and wives' retirement behavior is influenced by their own …