are tremendous. As the baby boom generation grows older, it is doubtful that ever-longer retirement will continue to be …). Nevertheless, as today's workers evaluate their own retirement security, and as policymakers and business leaders assess the …

the retirement decision in an economy with risky lifetime, and compare the laissez-faire with egalitarian social optima … retirement age, unlike the ex ante egalitarian optimum. This result is robust to the introduction of unequal life expectancies … and unequal productivities. Hence, the postponement of the retirement age can, quite surprisingly, be defended on …

work relative to retirement. We here use two European panel datasets to first show that psychological well-being (measured …

adults work some fraction of the old-age, whatever the retirement age is fixed or chosen by the agents. …

How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … potential influence of health on employment choices, we show that retirement improves physical and social health. The more …