In this article, we analyse old-age retirement decisions of Slovenian men and women, eligible to retire in the period … 1997-2003. In comparison to established market economies, we find relatively high hazard rates of retirement that decline …) workers and vice versa. We find that the probability of retirement decreases with option value to work and net wages, although …

calculating the pension saved during a working life and the pension dis-saved after retirement. The findings show that there are …

to business closure, redundancy, dismissal, early retirement, etc.), marital status (married/widowed) and health status … cessation) has a significant effect only for Belgium and the Netherlands. However, the impact of this reason on the retirement …

The object of this paper is to examine the impact of type of pension scheme on retirement behaviour. The well … retirement behaviour. The paper presents a model of a simple (defined contribution) pension plan and looks at the optimal … retirement date, which is found to depend on prospective earnings and the evolution of the accumulated pension fund, which, in …

other countries’ pension systems and their experiences of retirement-income reforms. However, national pension systems are … can inform debates on retirement-income systems by presenting “hard” data that people with different visions for the … future of pensions can all use as a reference point. International comparisons of retirement-income regimes to date have …

supply and endogenous retirement. When the fixed cost of work is increasing in wage, the optimal retirement wedge provides … stronger incentives for delayed retirement with age. Retirement benefits that resemble the US Social Security system can … implement the optimum. Calibrated numerical simulations suggest that a mix of retirement benefits that increase with claiming …

Using pseudo-panel microdata we show that pension generosity affects early retirement decisions. The changes in the … average replacement rate and decreases in wealth accrual between 1967 and 2004 have caused an increase in early retirement …