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Longer life expectancy and insufficient savings expose individuals to financial vulnerability in older ages and prompt government support measures. We study a government cash subsidy program for the low-income elderly population in Singapore. Using comprehensive, high-frequency transaction data,...
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labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …
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Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...
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We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime … utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life …
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for working indefinitely. Most workers stating that they would never retire probably would have expected retirement ages … under 67, if they had planned for retirement. Evaluations of retirement adequacy of workers should carefully consider the … retirement …
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There are many decisions that Americans have to make about retirement before, at, and after retirement. For example …, Americans have to decide when to start saving for retirement, how much to save, how to invest those savings, when to retire …, when to claim social security, and how to take required minimum distributions from 401(k) plans or Individual Retirement …
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future employment. Exploiting across cohort variation in expected pension wealth induced by a 3-year lift in early retirement …
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Little previous research on planned retirement ages has analyzed factors related to whether workers say they will never … retire. This issue is important both in financial planning and in assessments of retirement adequacy. Using the 1995, 1998 … categories of planned retirement age. For the 1995 to 2007 SCF datasets, 14% to 16% of workers stated they would never retire …
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