This article proposes ways to improve retirement outcomes for defined contribution plan participants in terms of three … key drivers: savings rates, investment strategies, and post-retirement distributions. Levers include raising saving rates …

older men from the 1970s to the early 1990s, a trend that has only recently shown signs of being reversed. Retirement … different quot;retirementquot; experiences. At the top of the wealth distribution, early retirement has typically been …, disability benefits. Policy-makers keen to increase effective retirement ages will need to consider the very different …

surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …