issues assigned to the following topics: ageing with dignity; retirement age; assumptions and conditions resulting from …

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

timing of retirement. Using detailed longitudinal population register data 1982-2010, we track first-time enrollees in higher … large effects. Tentative calculations indicate that if enrollment occurs at age 42, the retirement delay represents about …

saving by public and private pensions. Some parameters of the model are estimated and others are calibrated to match life … benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) pensions on average crowd out household wealth by $0.09 and $0.37 per dollar of …) generally resulting in larger simulated crowd out. A welfare analysis implies that DB pensions and Social Security are not …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … problems make older workers more responsive to financial incentives encouraging retirement (reinforcement proposition). We test …

expected retirement period. Thus, it is argued that when women have greater relative bargaining power, households will … retirement. The results suggest that in this setting it may be rational for women with greater bargaining power to favour greater …