people do not know what amount will be paid out on retirement and/or whether the payments will be in the form of lump …

Background: The pension deficit has been rapidly enlarging for more than a decade. If the retirement age is set at a … old in last ten years, the feasibility of rising the retirement age has also been promoted. Methods: This paper aims to … construct a mathematical model for choosing a proper policy about raising retirement age on the basis of the interaction between …

Do workers value retirement benefits? We find that dollars paid in employer contributions to 401(k) plans have double …-age occupations. We use two novel instruments for identification: 1) IRS non-discrimination testing of retirement plans and 2 …) national wage setting. We then estimate an on-the-job search model which shows that higher income workers value retirement …