Savings, pensions and wealth

This paper studies the relationship between demographic change and international capital flows using a large cross-country time-series dataset.

In this paper we investigate the way consumption changes around retirement in Italy.

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/1989 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes.

In this Briefing Note, we discuss whether or not the government's proposed reforms are likely to help individuals to make choices about how to provide for their retirement that are appropriate to their circumstances. We focus particularly on whether or not the proposals might prompt those individuals who are not thought to be providing sufficiently for their retirement to save more each year or to retire at an older age than might otherwise have been the case.

Comparing household wealth distribution, wealth inequality, and wealth holdings in the United States and the United Kingdom.

We examine the role of ill-health in retirement decisions in Britain, using the first eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-98).

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations and wealth accumulation decisions.

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.

This paper analyses retirement expectations and outcomes using the two waves of the UK Retirement Survey, undertaken in 1988-89 and 1994.

In this paper we begin by describing the labour market behaviour of individuals around pension age.

This paper uses two waves of the UK Retirement Survey to look at how incomes change during retirment.

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.

We study transitions in and out of work for men over the age of forty in order to investigate the principal determinants of retirement age.

Labor force participation of men over age 50 fell sharply in the UK between the early 1970s and early 1990s.