The U.S. retirement system, and the workers and retirees it was designed to help, face major challenges. Traditional … retirement savings accounts, such as 401(k) plans. Yet research shows that many households are ill-equipped for this task and … have little or no retirement savings. In this special report, GAO examines these challenges, drawing from prior work and …

. Therefore, a pension system with a unique retirement age is a priori problematic. The usual policy recommendation to address … this problem is to differentiate the retirement age by SES. This paper explores the relative merits of partial de …

This paper investigates the retirement patterns of married couples in Belgium. To forecast retirement behavior, we use …'s structural design affect both partners' retirement decisions. We simulate the effect of the elimination of the spousal bonus and … find that a small portion of women delay their retirement whereas the rest substitute into alternative social security …

In 2010, increasing the retirement age became a focal point of Social Security reform proposals. In a controversial … retirement age from 67 to 69 and the age at which benefits could first be claimed from 62 to 64. Both ages would be indexed to … surrounding the retirement age provisions in the Social Security Act. It considers the four statutory age-related factors …

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 …

-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …