leisure more (or less) in company of their spouse (complementarity/ externalities in leisure). Preferences and the intra … Retirement Study. They compare model simulations with those from a standard unitary model for a set of policy reforms; such as …

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 …

What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …

Previous empirical literature has found a sharp decline in consumption during the first years of retirement implying … that individuals do not save enough for their retirement. This phenomenon has been called the retirement consumption puzzle …. In contrast to some of the previous studies, the authors find no evidence of the retirement consumption puzzle during the …

The authors examine how public and private pension and health insurance systems affect retirement transitions. In many … and salary workers, and these differences are likely to cause differential retirement patterns both within and across … retirement patterns. Based on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the United States and the English …

The authors look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age on retirement … expectations of workers in the Health and Retirement Study, aged 51 to 61 in 1992. For men, they find that those whose marginal … normal retirement age. They do not find significant evidence of effects of the repeal of the earnings test on the probability …

part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …

unexpectedly returned to work, the evidence points to preference shocks-that is, discovering retirement leisure less satisfying …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 …

This paper explores how and why the probability of retirement differs between self-employed and wage-and-salary workers …. It finds self-employed workers are less likely to retire than wage-and-salary ones, and that differences in retirement … incomes, health, productivity, job characteristics, and compulsory retirement practices do not explain the disparity. This …