Among numerous retirement schemes in France, the Social Security general regime" covers all wage earners from the … but with a downward adjustment of benefits. Our computations show that early" retirement adjustment rules give strong … change in the retirement age induced by the 1983 reform …

We study the influence of job characteristics on prospective retirement as measured by the probability of working past … from the Health and Retirement Survey, we find that physical and mental job requirements have a rather small influence on … prospective retirement, whereas measures of job flexibility and financial aspects of the job are important determinants …

. Conventional analyses of wage profiles pool all waqe observations without distin-guishing among individuals according to retirement …

Retirement Around the World. This project, which compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries, was launched in the mid … project document that social security program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly … affect retirement, whether there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment, and whether older individuals are …

older men from the 1970s to the early 1990s, a trend that has only recently shown signs of being reversed. Retirement … different quot;retirementquot; experiences. At the top of the wealth distribution, early retirement has typically been …, disability benefits. Policy-makers keen to increase effective retirement ages will need to consider the very different …

The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (½% of the workforce over 65), yet staged in … little allowance for fair pension increases if retirement is deferred. While these laws have begun to change, we find another …