As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where … has been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. We find significant impact on work after retirement from … education, gender, home ownership, aggregate unemployment at the time of retirement, age and education. Being married has a …

employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …

Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a … smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern …. A richer version of the model is calibrated to data from the Health and Retirement Study. The median change in …

retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

and accrual elasticities in individuals' retirement decisions. Next, we use these elasticities to estimate a dynamic … programming model of retirement decisions. Finally, we use the estimated model to examine the labor supply and welfare …