countries over 1969-1999 or shorter periods in some cases) of retirement incentives embedded in those schemes is constructed for … dimensions of retirement incentives such as the pension accrual rate but also, to a lesser extent, the availability and …This paper examines the impact of old-age pension systems and other social transfer programmes on the retirement …

or contributions. Instead, we offer ways to enhance incentives for people to work longer and delay retirement. There are … contributions boosted in many nations. Yet our research on old-age system reforms does not require raising mandatory retirement ages … good reasons to incentivize older people to work longer and delay retirement. These include rising longevity, the shrinking …

. Policymakers have attempted to ensure the sustainability of these programs in recent decades by raising retirement ages. However …

"This ninth volume of the International Social Security series, which studies the social security and retirement …, the studies in this volume explore how financial incentives to work at older ages have evolved from 1980 to the present as … changing incentives. Overall, the findings support the hypothesis that social security reforms have strengthened the incentives …

This paper uses administrative data to study the retirement decisions of Italian private-sector non …-agricultural employees during the period 1977-97. Our analysis tries to assess the importance of the financial incentives built into the … continue to work. Our model does not provide a structural representation of the retirement process. A worker's decision is …

that early retirement is the result of a global agreement between firms and government where workers have incentives to …, we explore the employers behaviour and the role of governments in the development of early retirement schemes. We show … because they are costly compared to young workers and governments hope that by pushing elderly into early retirement they will …

among ages 45–79. These findings, along with the observed timing of retirement and benefit claims and research on how income … affects suicide, suggest that the likely explanation is Social Security early retirement benefit eligibility rather than … retirement per se …

severely disabled receive early retirement benefits as receive disability benefits from DI or SSI. The evidence suggests that … Social Security early retirement benefits serve as a substantial, albeit unofficial, disability program for some early …