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

We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply …

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 …