Governments will come under increasing pressure to take a more flexible approach to the retirement age as the population ages, according to visiting Treasury research fellow Richard Disney.
Thursday, December 11th 2003, 2:29AM
by The Landlord
"Retirement is not the same as the age you start receiving your pension," he says.
New Zealand is virtually the only country to have raised the age at which people receive the retirement pension - from 60 to 65, over the 1990s - and Disney has studied the impact of that shift.
