To what extent does hours flexibility in career employment impact the retirement process? Workplace flexibility … impact on the timing of retirement. Alternatively, hours flexibility in career employment could lead to longer working lives … phased retirement, are to be considered an option for alleviating the strains of an aging society. This paper describes how …

Data from the longitudinal Health and Retirement Study indicate that approximately 15 percent of older Americans with … were younger, were in better health, or had a defined-contribution pension plan …

This article examines how retirement income at age 67 is likely to change for baby boomers and persons born in … (MINT) model to project retirement income and assets, poverty rates, and replacement rates for current and future retirees … at age 67. We find that, in absolute terms, retirement incomes of future cohorts will increase over time, and poverty …

-funded pension insurances. A substantial share of the population, however, still has no or only insufficient private retirement …Demographic change is projected to impose a substantial burden on the public pay-as-you-go pension insurance in Germany … in the next decades. Past pension reforms have thus aimed at encouraging additional private old-age provision in fully …

The provision of health insurance has previously been shown to be an important determinant of retirement timing among … insurance benefits. Specifically, the literature examines only how retirement may affect the health insurance available to the … potential retiree but not how it might affect a spouse's options. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, I find that …

trend is that the retirement incomes drawn from the public pension systems are on the decline, the changes are likely to …This paper reviews changes in pension policies in EU countries between 1995 and 2005 and describes how they might … affect risk of poverty for future pensioner populations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed considerably in the past …

In response to a widespread perception that households are undersaving for retirement, policymakers have proposed … expanding Social Security and establishing supplementary retirement saving plans run by state governments. But these proposals … take place against a background of record-high unfunded liabilities for government-run retirement programs. If government …

pension plan heterogeneity is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. Model simulations indicate that …This paper examines the role of the shift in pension plans — from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution — in … changes in pension plan composition can explain 10% to 30% percent of the recent increase in labor force participation of the …

statutory retirement age and the recent introduction of a full pension two years before the standard retirement age for those …For the statutory pension scheme to be financed sustainably on its current pay-as-you-go basis, as many people as … possible need to stay at work until the standard retirement age. In economic theory, retirement is described as an individual …

Retirement Study (HRS), we explore the work histories and retirement patterns of a cohort of retirees aged 51 to 61 in 1992 over … younger respondents, respondents without defined-benefit pension plans, and respondents at the lower-end and at the upper …. Given concerns about the traditional sources of retirement income (Social Security, defined-benefit pensions, and prior …