The aim of this article is to analyse the question of career interruptions and to evaluate their impact on pension … retirement for French private sector workers. Using the last French survey on households' wealth (2003-2004), we first study the … interruptions. Second, we determine how pension rights for French employees are affected by different career accidents. We consider …

retirement patterns; the amounts of private pension and Social Security benefits that workers would receive at alternate … retirement ages; the prospective budget sets facing potential retirees from ages 60 to 68; and variation across pension plans in … retirement ages among workers in different pension plans in terms of differences in the economic rewards for deferring retirement …

Low contribution levels to pension schemes in Latin America are an enormous obstacle limiting the implementation of a …, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Once the specific question relating to pension contributions has been identified in the … affecting the likelihood to contribute to any pension system in Latin America. Working in the informal economy, being a self …

In Italy, the ageing of the population is leading to an increase of the pension expenditures. Before Dini reform in …-contribution formula that penalizes the early retirement and assures lower benefits. However, some considerations put the sustainability of … the pension system for future generations under discussion. A multipillar system with capitalisation elements (public …

Is the current mix of tax preferences for employer-sponsored pensions and individual retirement saving in the U ….S. delivering the best possible retirement-preparedness across and within generations? Using data from the triennial Survey of … Consumer Finances for 1989 through 2013, cohort-based analysis of life-cycle trajectories shows that (1) overall retirement …

calls a “return spring”—a mechanism in which the pension yield is lowered in relation to a desired contribution rate. This …, while NDC maintains the principle of social cohesion in public pension schemes. …

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 …

This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative …

, negative effect on the probability of post-retirement work. A 10% increase in benefit size decreases the probability of work 3 … a mean of 12.8%). For both spouses, the effect erodes in later years of retirement. …

, negative effect on the probability of post-retirement work. A 10% increase in benefit size decreases the probability of work 3 … a mean of 12.8%). For both spouses, the effect erodes in later years of retirement. …