processes in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, the chapter explores the structural and political sources of these …

The goal of this study is to present an insider view on the pension reforms implemented in Hungary between 1996 and … structure of the paper is as follows: Section 1 considers the legacy of the pension system. Section 2 summarises the debate on … the pension reform and the basic decisions. Section 3 outlines the implementation of the pension reform, while Section 4 …

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) approach how a new pension program impacts inter vivos transfers. We show that pension benefits lower the propensity …

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) approach how a new pension program impacts inter vivos transfers. We show that pension benefits lower the propensity …

form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover … labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from …

from a lack of pension income. In this paper, we use data from the first four waves of the Irish Longitudinal Study of …+. We find that a lack of pension income is an important determinant of later-life working and that this applies for both …

Many nations incentivize retirement saving by letting workers defer taxes on pension contributions, imposing them when … taxing pension contributions instead of withdrawals leads to delayed retirement, somewhat lower lifetime tax payments, and …

Most Americans have not estimated how much they need to save for retirement. This lack of awareness may contribute to … low levels of retirement savings. We investigate the relation between planning and retirement wealth. Those who have … estimated how much they need to save for retirement have significantly higher retirement wealth. Respondents who rely on an …

three well-established puzzles in the retirement literature. The first puzzle is that, given incentives, the extent of … bunching of labour market exits at legislated state pension ages (SPA) seems incompatible with rational expectations (e … on wealthier people. The second puzzle is that people are often mistaken about their own pension provisions (e.g. Gustman …