We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

This paper focuses on the relation between worker's productivity and retirement decision. Assuming that productivity … worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level … of income and benefits is set to maximize lifetime utility. In such framework we find the retirement threshold of …

increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpected shock in their financial situation around retirement and … conditional distribution of expectations and realizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes- simistic and …

important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

explaining the observed variation in retirement behaviour across different types of households. We specify and estimate models … to decompose the observed differences in retirement trends of the different demographic subgroups into differences in … preferences and differences in the availability and generosity of the retirement options. …