We follow individuals as they retire using discrete-time hazard models applied to a stock sample from 12 waves of the British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively more important than pension entitlement. This is the...

The present paper simulates the privatization of social security in an economy populated by overlapping generations of individuals that have time-consistent or time-inconsistent preferences, face mortality and individual income risk as well as borrowing constraints. We compute the transition...

This paper quantifies the effects of social security on capital accumulation and wealth distribution in a life-cycle framework with altruistic individuals. The main findings of this paper are that the current U.S. social security system has a significant impact on capital accumulation and wealth...

The Social Security Amendments of 1983 reduced the generosity of Social Security retired worker benefits in the U.S. by increasing the program's full retirement age from 65 to 67 and increasing the penalty for claiming benefits at the early retirement age of 62. These changes were phased in...

In seinen Ausführungen zu einer Rentenreform, die die Rentenbemessung in Zusammenhang mit der Kinderzahl definiert, unterstützt Egon Hölder, Präsident des Statistischen Bundesamtes a.D., einen von Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn entwickelten Vorschlag zum Umbau der Altersrentenversicherung.

Die Pläne von Regierung und Opposition für eine längerfristig orientierte Rentenreform nehmen Gestalt an, und die parlamentarischen Beratungen über ein neues Reformgesetz sollen bis zum Jahresende abgeschlossen werden. Unbeachtet bleiben aber nach wie vor die eigentlichen Grundlagen...

Am 6. März 2002 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht sein seit langem erwartetes Urteil zu den Besteuerungsunterschieden von Arbeitnehmerrenten und Beamtenpensionen verkündet. Bereits 1980 hatte das Gericht das bestehende System zwar für verfassungsgemäß erklärt, aber gleichzeitig das Ausmaß...

This paper studies the quantitative impact of aging on the financing of social security and the public sector in Switzerland. Demographic projections forecast a doubling of the dependency ratio until 2050 as well as an increase of 10% in total population due to longer life expectancy. We use a...

The present paper studies the growth, welfare and efficiency consequences of the recent introduction of tax-favored retirement accounts in Germany in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We focus on the implicit...

We examine how social security programs have affected the labor force participation (LFP) of the elderly over the past forty years in Japan. Using publicly available data, we construct forwardlooking incentive measures for inducing retirement, to ascertain the actual changes in the generosity of...