reform implemented individual and professional pension plans. These retirement savings contracts are not well developed … characteristics which explain the holding behaviours of life endowment contracts and retirement savings plans. We conclude that the … individuals are responsible for their own retirement planning. The French pension system offered high replacement rates. The …

We assess investment sophistication in a large sample of auto-enrolled, retirement plan member choices. A strong …

retirement for French private sector workers. Using the last French survey on households' wealth (2003-2004), we first study the …

The aim of the present study was to explore whether identifiable member clusters exist in retirement savings decisions … by considering the investment choice history of the members of four large Australian retirement savings funds. We used a …

We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample … of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) men observed over a period of up to 12 years. We hypothesize that the effect of RHBs … three wellknown panel data estimators and find that, for men in their 50s, RHBs have little or no effect on retirement …

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

This study updates what we know about the Great Recession’s impact on older unemployed Americans’ health and pre-retirement …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …

We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement … increasing their labor supply. Consistent with this, we show that parents with more adult sons delay their retirement. In … particular, an elderly parent with all sons has a retirement probability that is 7-10 percentage points lower than a comparable …