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 …

experience. The Spanish economic boom since the mis nineties, the slowdown in the number of pensioners due to the retirement of …