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 …

retirement. In order to introduce the existence of limited-time pension insurance, we assume that for each period of retirement …

introduces a mandatory system but to help savers, it adds taxfavored retirement accounts. If the mandatory system is progressive …

tax-favored retirement accounts. In a very simple model, where benefits are proportional to contributions, we compare …

recommended to conclude a non-subsidized retirement contract if he or she has less than three children. The recommendations may be …

retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of …