2014

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. 

Extending working lives was one of the key objectives of the so-called Lisbon strategy in 2000 and still is an integral part of the European Employment Strategy. It is also seen by successive Dutch cabinets as part of the answer to the ageing of the labor market and the challenge of keeping the social welfare state affordable. The prolongation of working life after retirement is one example of how this policy objective can be realized.

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.

Multiemployer pension plans – defined benefit plans established through collectively bargained agreements between labor unions and two or more employers – have been weakened by two financial crises and a slow recovery from the recession.

While concerns remain about individuals spending their retirement savings prior to retirement, more workers appear to be saving—not spending—their retirement plan distributions.

Tidligpensjonering kan være bra for helsen. Det viser en fersk svensk forskningsstudie som sammenligner helsen til yrkesoffiserer med ulik avgangsalder.

This paper investigates the role of productivity as a determinant of the worker’s retirement intentions. Using an overlapping generation framework, we analyze the retirement decision of a cohort of workers being ability heterogeneous.

This paper studies the redistribution and welfare effects of increasing the flexibility of individual pension take-up.

The labor force participation of Dutch elderly workers is considered to be extremely low in comparison to other Western countries. In 2003 the participation rates of the older workers in the Netherlands were below the OECD average; 6 percentage point for women and 2 percentage point for men.

Dette notatet gir en oversikt over utviklingen i det private tjenestepensjonsmarkedet i Norge i perioden 2001-2013.

The focus of this study is on line managers’ attitudes towards their management role in respect of employee retirement.

The Pensions Regulator commissioned IFF Research to undertake quantitative research to better understand the costs of administering defined benefit (DB) pension schemes. A total of 316 private sector schemes, which are the focus on this report, completed the survey.