employment-related factors and policy solutions that have the potential to improve wealth creation and retirement security for … women. By constructing country-specific portraits of wealth outcomes and "retirement preparedness," we reveal extensive … creating wealth. The retirement preparedness outcomes indicate that single women in all three countries are in a precarious …

Health and Retirement Study merged to local house prices from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, we estimate the effect of … house-price changes on actual and planned retirement timing. While we find no effect of house-price changes on the annual … probability of retiring, we find that people respond to rising house prices by revising down their expected retirement age. We …

In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth … assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the …

close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit …