Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca Discussion Paper No. 6325 January 2012 In March of 2010, the Irish government announced that the age at which the state pension is paid would be raised to 66 in 2014, 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028. Also during 2010, the economic news became increasingly bad as the full [...]