significant element of retirement accumulation for many New Zealanders. The Treasury maintains a programme of work related to … housing, saving, wealth accumulation and retirement. The results of this contribute to Treasury's role in providing advice to … would be needed to smooth consumption between pre- and post-retirement. Finally it explores the effect of some home equity …

pay-as-you-go universal pension. In addition, the model allows for a compulsory private retirement savings scheme … retirement along with the implications for saving. Importantly, the model incorporates a government budget constraint involving a …

percentage losses in retirement savings as a result of more frequent spells of unemployment. Higher income worker losses are more …

We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an … retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in doing so, estimates of the individuals' responses to financial … incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. We propose an estimation strategy where the retirement …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpectedshock in their financial situation around retirement and … distribution of expectations andrealizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes-simistic and attach more …

active working life. Retirement through either of these pensions was and in 2006 still is an accessible exit route from the … labour market that provides a minimal but secure income flow. For those reaching the minimum legal retirement age, retirement … system make retirement very attractive, especially for those with bad labour market prospects. Accepting that this system was …

increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different … the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …

important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

. It is likely that the individual level of wealth will become an increasingly important factor in the retirement decision … through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …