 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
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Using a sample of individuals from the UK Retirement Survey, the paper models the probability of retirement in terms of the incentives underlying the individual's pension plan as well as other socio-economic factors.
This briefing note assembles the existing microeconomic evidence and sets out economic arguments relating to the current debate on the ageing population, the timing of retirement, and the adequacy of financial provision for retirement in the UK.
This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain.
Using a sample of individuals aged 55 and over from the UK Retirement Survey, this paper models the probability of retirement in terms of the incentives underlying the individual\'s pension plan as well as other socio-economic factors.
In this paper we describe the information available in the Retirement Survey, together with other sources of data that might be used by someone wanting to study retirement behaviour in the UK.
Richard Disney and Sarah Tanner
This paper analyses retirement expectations and outcomes using the two waves of the UK Retirement Survey, undertaken in 1988-89 and 1994.
Sarah Tanner
This paper uses data from the two waves of the UK Retirement Survey to present a detailed descriptive analysis of the retirement behaviour of older men.
Paul Johnson, Gary Stears and Steven Webb
This paper uses two waves of the UK Retirement Survey to look at how incomes change during retirment.
In this paper we begin by describing the labour market behaviour of individuals around pension age.
Labor force participation of men over age 50 fell sharply in the UK between the early 1970s and early 1990s.
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  IFS researchers present and discuss new research on retirement saving with a group of business leaders and policy makers.
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