labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension … analysis based on a survey of recipients of the Unemployment Benefit II shows that low or no propensity to work was rarely the … motive for leaving the labour market; in particular, those anticipating a low retirement income actually wanted to be re …

labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension … analysis based on a survey of recipients of the Unemployment Benefit II shows that low or no propensity to work was rarely the … motive for leaving the labour market; in particular, those anticipating a low retirement income actually wanted to be re …

Retiring babyboomers are driving a shift from retirement-fund accumulation to decumulation, but they need better …

a strong trend towards later retirement as a result of social and economic pressures, without any policy action. The … results will be largely positive and should therefore be supported by policy whenever possible. Delaying work-retirement … provide consistency in signals about retirement ages. …

retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of …

reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …-pillar metaphor is still a fruitful perspective because it facilitates constructive responses to the pressures confronting Canada … policy”. Based on his examination of Canada’s pension and health-care systems, Robson makes a number of recommendations …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … universal medicare. Osberg also finds that relative to the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada has done the … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in …

retirement income. More precisely, this paper, which is based on two Statistics Canada surveys (Survey of Consumer Finances and … Canada’s retirees during the period 1980-2002. This study has used the concept of individualized income based on the economic … retirement income sources has been realized, while discerning five distinct categories: net government transfer payments, CPP …

retirement age in Canada. …This paper seeks to contribute to a forward-looking debate on possible reform options for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP … rather analyzes one vital option that has received insufficient attention in previous debates: raising the normal retirement …

retirement status and timing. We assessed the association between caregiving intensity and retirement status for individuals aged … before age 65. Our results highlight the importance of measuring caregiving intensity and multiple paths to retirement, which … are often overlooked in the caregiving and retirement literature. They also indicate that a policy context encouraging …