1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the …

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

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 …

Most industrialized countries today are facing historical demographic changes, paring increasing retirement with a … this effect by exploiting variation in the pre-determined component of retirement. We find that a 10-point increase in the …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …

of leaving to early retirement. The wage is not affected. …

relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the … early retirement behavior in three periods (pre-liberalization, announcement, and implementation) for three groups of … retirement in MRA is not explained by more firms' exits, nor by more early retirement among the exiting firms. It is rather the …