This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpectedshock in their financial situation around retirement and … distribution of expectations andrealizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes-simistic and attach more …

and purchasing power of old age social security benefits, and the average retirement age ten or twenty years from now. We …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpected shock in their financial situation around retirement and … conditional distribution of expectations and realizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pessimistic and …

retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more than … half of women appear to be making standard retirement plans. At the same time, more than one in five individuals seem to … have delayed their retirement planning and approximately one in ten either do not know when they expect to retire or expect …