Like most other developed nations, Canada has a large income security system for retirement that provides significant … of appropriate data. We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security (IS … IS system have large and statistically significant impacts on retirement. This suggests that program reform can play some …

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 …

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 …

Canada has a large Income Security system for retirement that provides significant and widely varying disincentives to … work at older ages.We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security system … significant impacts on retirement.This suggests that program reform can play a role in responses to fiscal pressures.We also …

of the interaction between the SS system and retirement behavior. We begin by documenting historical trends in labor … the relationship between SS and retirement. Finally, we present results of a simulation model which measures the implicit …

government budget. I provide an overview of the interaction between these" transfer programs and retirement behavior. I begin by …

improvements in wellbeing arising from the provision of public pensions. To the extent households adjust their savings and … employment behavior to account for enhanced retirement benefits, the positive impact of the benefits may be crowded out. We …, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases …

early retirement of workers who are not truly disabled. A critical input for assessing the optimal size of the DI program is …