Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … in the employment of older person would reduce the employment of younger persons. The validity of such claims is …

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project … typically encourage retirement by reducing pay for work, inducing older employees to leave the labor force early and magnifying …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … eliminate the incentives for older persons to leave the labor force, claiming that the consequent increase in the employment of … older person would reduce the employment of younger persons. The validity of such claims is addressed in this volume …

Retirement around the World offers comparative analysis from twelve countries and examines the issue of age in the labor force. A … the workforce, the effects that reforming social security would have on the employment rates of older workers, and how …

Case of France -- 5. Early Retirement and Employment of the Young in Germany -- 6. Youth Unemployment and Retirement of the … the Young? The Case of Japan -- 8. Early Retirement and Employment of the Young in the Netherlands -- 9. Social Security … Employment of the Young in Sweden -- 11. Releasing Jobs for the Young? Early Retirement and Youth Unemployment in the United …

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 …

so using information on older males from the Health and Retirement Study over the 1980-1997 period to calculate the …

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

programs often provide generous retirement benefits at young ages. Also, the provisions of these programs often imply large … financial penalties on earnings beyond the social security early retirement age.Furthermore, in many countries disability and … unemployment programs effectively provide early retirement benefits before the official social security early retirement age. We …