This report is designed to provide new evidence on retirement patterns in the UK, as part of the Pensions Review, a … financial security in retirement. Understanding patterns of retirement at older ages is key to understanding the challenges … facing pensions systems, as pensions are designed to enable households to finance spending in old age when people are no …

-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement …This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual … data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis …

to making a choice on whether people at the age of retirement should be left with an unequivocal choice: either work and … pensioners in work and thus create an opportunity for people who receive a retirement pension to work as long as possible? The … discussion on this matter is significant, as the lowering of the retirement age is happening in Poland. Postponement of …

educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …

poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement …In this paper we use data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to describe and analyse the dynamics of … retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of …

surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …