A special exemption from the 1986 Age Discrimination Act allowed colleges and universities
to enforce mandatory retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We construct a survey that …

Life-cycle theory suggests that workers would prefer to gradually enter retirement from their
career jobs. Using data from 15 campuses of the University of North Carolina system, this …

A pension plan is an important component of lifetime earnings, and thus the decision
between a defined benefit pension and a defined contribution pension is an important one …

As a result of the 1986 Age Discrimination in Employment Act, colleges and universities
were no longer allowed to impose mandatory retirement on faculty members at age seventy …

A key component of the strategic plan for any company is the determination of the optimal
number of workers needed to produce the desired level of output. Unless workers of different …

In this study, we provide an examination of the literature on the variables that have
influenced prior faculty decisions to retire. This provides a background on which to analysis …

The debate over whether to end mandatory retirement age policy in favor of flexible
retirement policy has heightened. It is argued that it is wasteful to compel productive workers …

Two decades of significant changes in the composition of the academic staff—especially
growth in part-time and non tenure track faculty—made it easy to overlook changes in the …

What would be the impact and consequences, if a voluntary early retirement incentive plan
was offered to the full-time faculty in Virginia's 23 community colleges? What combination of …