Many Americans claim Social Security benefits early, though this leaves them with lower benefits throughout retirement … strategic survey about the lump sum. In other words, such a reform could provide an avenue for encouraging delayed retirement …

People who delay claiming Social Security receive higher lifelong benefits upon retirement. We survey individuals on …

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

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 …

-funded pension insurances. A substantial share of the population, however, still has no or only insufficient private retirement …Demographic change is projected to impose a substantial burden on the public pay-as-you-go pension insurance in Germany … in the next decades. Past pension reforms have thus aimed at encouraging additional private old-age provision in fully …

The goal of this study is to present an insider view on the pension reforms implemented in Hungary between 1996 and … structure of the paper is as follows: Section 1 considers the legacy of the pension system. Section 2 summarises the debate on … the pension reform and the basic decisions. Section 3 outlines the implementation of the pension reform, while Section 4 …

form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover … labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from …

from a lack of pension income. In this paper, we use data from the first four waves of the Irish Longitudinal Study of …+. We find that a lack of pension income is an important determinant of later-life working and that this applies for both …

Many nations incentivize retirement saving by letting workers defer taxes on pension contributions, imposing them when … taxing pension contributions instead of withdrawals leads to delayed retirement, somewhat lower lifetime tax payments, and …