Employment, retirement and pensions

Understand this issue

Retirement is not always a choice that workers can afford to make

comment

"More of us may feel little choice but to work a year or two longer than planned." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

6 November 2023

The future of the state pension

podcast

We discuss the current challenges facing the state pension - and options for reform.

21 December 2023

Pensions are far from broken but could still use a fix

comment

Paul Johnson writes for The Times on the 'simple steps' get us to a 'stable, simple, affordable' pensions system.

18 December 2023

Policy analysis

Understanding retirement in the UK

report

We comprehensively examine the changing patterns of retirement in the UK for different groups in society.

1 November 2023

The future of the state pension

report

This IFS Pensions Review report sets out key challenges for the UK’s state pension system and suggests a way forward for the future

13 December 2023

Early retirement increasingly concentrated amongst the wealthy

press release

We provide new evidence on retirement patterns in the UK.

1 November 2023

Academic research

Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth

working paper

We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples.

18 January 2024

The labor market effects of disability benefit loss

working paper

Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits.

29 September 2023

Old age risks, consumption, and insurance

working paper

We measure the effects of income and health shocks on consumption among U.S. households over age 65.

21 March 2023