This paper analyses retirement expectations and outcomes using the two waves of the UK Retirement Survey, undertaken in … individuals tend to report their most likely retirement date. About half of the sample retired when they expected. Men tend to … face greater uncertainty over their future retirement date. We provide evidence to support this hypothesis. Finally, we …

extent to which those who recently reached the state pension age in the UK have saved optimally for retirement. The policy … households have wealth levels far greater than necessary to maintain their living standards into and through retirement. …

context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …