severely disabled receive early retirement benefits as receive disability benefits from DI or SSI. The evidence suggests that … Social Security early retirement benefits serve as a substantial, albeit unofficial, disability program for some early …

Husbands and wives often coordinate retirement decisions, as many married workers withdraw from the labor force at … about the same time as their spouses. However, joint retirement behavior may differ for couples in which one spouse retires … with health problems. In those cases, the able-bodied spouse may delay retirement to compensate for the earnings lost by …

focus on exit through retirement, workplace accommodation measures and employee development measures. Design and methods: A … outwards (by promoting early retirement). The same division can be detected when examining the effects of labor union …

unused production capacity. Costs due to early retirement measured in terms of forgone output averaged 6.3 percent of … and how early retirement programs came about, in order to understand better the roots of the problem …

Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment … choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the … reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and spending in retirement are anything but average for women. Consequently …

The more traditional view of retirement as a one-time event has been superseded in recent years by the idea that, for … many workers, leaving the work force may involve a less abrupt transition to full-time retirement. This article examines … the process of exiting the labor force referred to in the media and academic literature as phased retirement. It explores …

This article proposes ways to improve retirement outcomes for defined contribution plan participants in terms of three … key drivers: savings rates, investment strategies, and post-retirement distributions. Levers include raising saving rates …

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 … empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 …

We show how the age profile of earnings, retirement rules and retirement behavior are tightly linked through the … paper theoretically rationalizes the links between retirement rules and the wage structures over the life cycle and uses … data on European countries to show how social security taxes, the age profile of earnings, and retirement behavior are …

In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems … during the last two decades, by discouraging early retirement and increasing incentives to work for older workers. Senior … reaction to retirement incentives set by governments. This paper highlights how disutility to work can merely influence the …