European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response … to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …

Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …

application to reference dependence exhibited in German workers’ retirement decisions. Both simulation and sufficient statistics … results suggest positive welfare effects of increasing the Normal Retirement Age, but ambiguous effects of financial … incentives to postpone retirement. Finally, we study how adopting alternative models of reference dependent preferences modifies …