This article uses Health and Retirement Study data to investigate the effects of Social Security's Windfall Elimination … Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) on Social Security benefits received by households. The provisions reduce … pension and were not subject to Social Security payroll taxes (“noncovered” employment). We find that about 3.5 percent of …

minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …The main purpose of minimum pension benefit programs and old-age social assistance programs is to guarantee a minimum … standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the …

The objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are … automatically granted a more generous old-age pension benefits replacement rate, called the household replacement rate. Following a … recommendation of the Belgian Pension Reform Committee, this policy is to be suppressed for new pensioners, except for those …

We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply … responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages …

Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time … influence the decision to take up a part-time pension and continue working at the same work place at reduced hours. We do this …

completely different work incentives from age 62. The reform removed a strict retirement earnings test such that pension wealth …We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase … based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement program, which entailed that adjacent birth cohorts were exposed to …

completely different work incentives from age 62. The reform removed a strict retirement earnings test such that pension wealth …We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase … based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement program, which entailed that adjacent birth cohorts were exposed to …

Radical changes have been implemented to pension schemes across the UK public sector from April 2015. This paper … simulates how these changes will affect the lifetime pension and how the negotiated pension changes compare across six public … sector schemes by level of education. Specifically, we simulate the occupation specific Defined Benefit (DB) pension wealth …

, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on administrative pension data, there was no significant delay in the … age of first pension receipt. Based on additional data sources, we find (i) that almost all pension recipients of our … retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …