In 1998, the Social Security Administration established the Retirement Research Consortium to encourage research on … policy communities. The Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) participated in the Consortium from its inception until … 2019, when the MRRC expanded and became the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. This article surveys a …

security systems on retirement behavior. In addition to measures of financial incentives induced by the social security systems … early retirement schemes. We find that financial incentives do not have a lot of explanatory power for the probability to … retire. In contrast, being eligible for early retirement substantially increases the chances for an individual to exit the …

This paper examines the impact of old-age pension systems and other social transfer programmes on the retirement … countries over 1969-1999 or shorter periods in some cases) of retirement incentives embedded in those schemes is constructed for … dimensions of retirement incentives such as the pension accrual rate but also, to a lesser extent, the availability and …

social security reforms. We further estimated the association of ITAX with an individual's decisions concerning retirement … forms on retirement based on the estimated regression parameters. The results showed that a higher ITAX drove individuals …

We analyze recent trends of the activity rates and retirement of Uruguayan old age workers. We find that in Uruguay … the 1996 social security reform. The minimum retirement age seems to be playing a key role in the retirement of Uruguayan … workers. We find peaks of retirement at the minimum retirement age and a gradual increase of the retirement age of women which …

In several countries where pensions are reformed and the retirement age is increased, the issue came up to make an … retirement scheme for such occupations through higher taxes. A representative sample of Dutch adults answered several questions … the evaluations of the demanding nature of the jobs as well as their reasonable retirement age or willingness to …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …

attention to the rules of retirement in Hungary since 1990. In every pension system, there exist two rules which determine how … the lifetime contribution (which is approximately proportional to the years of contributions) and the retirement age … a mandatory life insurance and life annuity system. More generally, we speak of flexible retirement if adding a year to …

We elicit preferences for retirement timing in a laboratory experiment. Subjects make retirement choices under … incentive alone shows a considerable delay of retirement once early retirement becomes financially less attractive. However … compared to those who only know their pension annuity. We conclude that the financial consequences of retirement choices become …