Senior Activity Rate, Retirement Incentives, and Labor Relations

Social Security, retirement incentives, and retirement behavior: an international perspective.

Escalating rates of early retirement are imposing fiscal pressure on retirement systems around the world. In some developed countries, the labor-force participation rates of men ages 60-64 have fallen by 75 percent over the last three decades. One explanation for this striking decline is social security program provisions which create disincentives to continued labor-force participation by olde...

Financial Incentives to Postpone Retirement

Retirement Incentives and Couples ’ Labour Supply Decisions

The Brazilian population has been showing signs of major changes in the past few decades. According to the United Nations, the average age of the population in Brazil is projected to be 47.5 years by 2050, compared to 19.2 years in 1950. The length of working life has fallen over time, due to both increases in educational attainment (thus fewer younger workers) and changes in retirement behavio...

Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement.

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of teachers dramatically in the coming years. We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in t...

Moving Forward: Retirement Opportunities for Senior Physicians.

As national and local medical organizations explore how to assess senior physicians and their competence and skill, it is important for physicians to understand that retirement can be an exciting, interesting, and significant life stage in and of itself. Many opportunities may exist – both within and outside of health care – to allow these physicians who no longer practice, to continue to live ...