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This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as Òunretirement,Ó in which retirees appear to … reverse their retirement decisions and return to work. Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, the author shows … that nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves partial retirement or unretirement …
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part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …
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unequivocally proven. Retirement is associated with a large change in a person's daily routine and environment. In this paper, the … authors propose two mechanisms how retirement may lead to cognitive decline. For many people retirement leads to a less … stimulating daily environment. In addition, the prospect of retirement reduces the incentive to engage in mentally stimulating …
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of life may represent a significant motive for saving. The authors use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement …
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According to the life-cycle model, mortality risk will influence both retirement and the desire to annuitize wealth …. The authors estimate the effect of subjective survival probabilities on retirement and on the claiming of Social Security …
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Most elderly parents in Indonesia coreside with their adult children. However, preliminary studies provide some evidence that casts doubt on the presumed relationship between coresidence and receipt of support (Frankenberg et al. 1999; Cameron 2000). This paper uses qualitative case studies of...
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authors use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which they compare with poverty rates …
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This study analyzed the retirement behavior of Mexicans with migration spells to the United States that returned to … retirement in the United States and other developed countries, Mexican non-migrants and return migrants were responsive to … addition, receipt of U.S. Social Security benefits increased retirement rates among return migrants. Return migrants were more …
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The Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study shows a large increase in reported total wealth between 1993 and 1995. Such an increase is not found in other US household surveys around that period. This paper examines one source of this difference. The authors find that in...
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This study provides new evidence on trends in disability among the elderly from 1982 to 1996. Logistics analysis is used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for age, sex, and proxy reporting. The sample includes 124,949 people ages 70 and older in the 1982-1996...
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