study will attempt to assess the financial preparation for retirement of the Quebec first cohorts of baby boomers born in …, some indicators will be selected to measure the financial preparation to retirement from three points of view. Thus, the … objective health of the financial preparation to retirement will be analyzed by comparing Quebec and Ontario. The relative …

plans, employees’ understanding of the link between their annual contribution decisions and their post-retirement wealth is … becoming increasingly important. We examine the extent to which wage-earners in the Health and Retirement Study correctly …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …

standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement …

This paper focuses on the relation between worker's productivity and retirement decision. Assuming that productivity … worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level … of income and benefits is set to maximize lifetime utility. In such framework we find the retirement threshold of …