China’s new Rural Pension scheme, announced in October 2009, is destined to be the world’s largest, at least in terms of membership. By the time it is fully implemented, in 2012, it will comprise some 600 million members, with about 105 million receiving benefits at that time.

In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe.

This working paper assesses the impact of the economic crisis on European pension systems and provides a comparative overview of the measures imposed on European pension systems, together with their effects.

Longevity risk arising from uncertain mortality improvement is one of the major risks facing annuity providers and pension funds. In this paper we show how applying trend models from non-life claims reserving to age-period-cohort mortality trends provides new insight in estimating mortality improvement and quantifying its uncertainty.

Amsterdam, 2 October 2004. More than 300,000 supporters of the political opposition and members of labour unions went to Amsterdam to demonstrate against the plans of the government to abolish the favourable tax treatment of early retirement schemes in the Netherlands.

This paper examines some of the main behavioral patterns that determine personal saving, investment, and retirement decisions, and considers ways to move them in a socially desirable direction.

This thesis studies the effects of redistribution and risk sharing in collective pensions on economic behaviour, with particular attention paid to the retirement decision.

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The OECD Review of the Irish Pension System recommends that the Government put in place either a universal basic pension scheme or a single means-tested pension, both topped up with a compulsory private pension.