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Savings, pensions and wealth

Our work examines how and why people accumulate wealth - such as in housing, pensions and other assets - and how they use it over their working life and in retirement. We also analyse decisions about retirement and the impact of pensions and saving policy on incomes, saving and retirement decisions.

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    Socio-economic position

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    Possibly one of the most pressing concerns in the debate on the ageing population is whether individuals will have adequate economic resources to maintain sufficient standards of living in retirement, and, if not, what the government can provide, in terms of health care and retirement income, to meet the needs of a population with an increasing fraction of older individuals.

    1 December 2003

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    Work and retirement

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    This chapter provides a complete cross-sectional description of the labour market activity and retirement status of the older population in England.

    1 December 2003

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    Mortality, health status and wealth

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    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.

    1 June 2003

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    Achieving simplicity, security and choice in retirement? An assessment of the government's proposed pensions reforms

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    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.

    2 April 2003

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    Pension incentives and the pattern of early retirement

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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.

    9 November 2002

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    Pension incentives and patterns of retirement

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    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.

    1 September 2001

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    Labour force participation and retirement in the UK

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    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.

    1 December 1999