The paper traces labor market reforms over the last four decades. It provides estimates of retirement incentives for a … performance in Belgium. The results show that the numerous retirement and social security program reforms have had a marked impact …

The paper traces labor market reforms over the last four decades. It provides estimates of retirement incentives for a … performance in Belgium. The results show that the numerous retirement and social security program reforms have had a marked impact …

In this paper, we describe the changes of (early) retirement programs over time and study the link between trends in … any, between elderly retirement and activity among the young and the prime-age populations. …

The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper … heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in … retirement. …

We simulate different reform scenarios of the Belgian pension system using a micro-simulation approach. Using a rich … individuals as well as the system as a whole. Our main metric for these analysis is the notion of accrued to date pension rights … country are mostly due to differences in regional GDP rather than the pension system itself. …

In this Paper, we discuss the main characteristics of European mandatory pension systems and the implications for these … intergenerational) in national pension systems to decrease. The latter result should hold true even in the presence of mobility limited … mobility at retirement. …

The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly … systems—with a focus on retirement. The article argues that such effects are nonnegligible and are likely to have major policy …

We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …

reforms for a fixed retirement age distribution. The behavioral effect accounts for the endogenous change caused by changes in …