identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

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 …

wealth. This pattern is consistent across multiple retirement age thresholds and cohorts, including both individuals who have …

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 …

situation post retirement. However, economic motives seem to be more important for younger pensioners. …

receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …

deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the evolution of the profitability of pension contributions against the …