While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

In this paper, we consider how the retirement age as well as a tax financed pension system ought to respond to a change … perfect control over the individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard … deviation of life-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and vice versa, if the preferences for "the number …

the normal retirement age from sixty-six to seventy-three, or 4) means-test the benefits and reduce them one-to-one with … participation ; retirement age ; demographic shift ; overlapping generations …

duration until retirement entry and (ii) on the duration until exit from gainful employment. I estimate discrete time duration … identified. The permanent reduction of retirement benefit amounts causes a postponement of retirement entry by about fifteen … months and a delay of employment exit by about nine months on average. -- retirement insurance ; labor force participation …

retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between … retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is devoted to analyzing the long-run financial implications of such a reform …. We show that with actuarial adjustments the long-run contribution rate is an increasing function of the retirement age …