This research analyses retirement behaviour in Austria based on a combined administrative dataset. Data from the … comprehensive microsimulation model of the Austrian pension system is developed and applied to calculate retirement benefit …

What is the optimal retirement age? This paper looks at the optimal retirement age from various perspectives. Most of … the current pension laws relating to retirement age were codified decades ago, and they have become badly out of date … retirement decisions. This paper provides some background about demography, health, and retirement; summarizes how current …

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement …-best allocation by introducing a child allowance scheme and a subsidy to incentivize the labor supply of older workers. As an …

-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … effects on women older than 60 we find important anticipation effects before reaching the pension eligibility age. Overall we … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …

could be achieved if people retire from the work force later in life. Partial retirement, the option to work part-time while … drawing a pension before reaching the normal retirement age, could create the necessary conditions for reaching this goal. The … impact of partial retirement on employment will be simulated below. The results show that unrestricted access to partial …

other hand, conventional policy measures, such as increasing the retirement age or changing the social security contribution …

other hand, conventional policy measures, such as increasing the retirement age or changing the social security contribution …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel … data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut …