scheme contains within-cohort redistribution and induces early retirement. Such a Pareto-improving reform entails the …-neutrality that stimulates later retirement further improves such a flexibility reform …

offering short-time work, and by early retirement packages to older workers, in conjunction with buy-outs. The latter … influences ownsizing preferences, with those employers who favor younger workers particularly likely to use early retirement and …

The effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse relationship …, whether retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. To identify the causal relationship, we use early retirement … window offers to instrument for retirement. We find no negative effects of early retirement on men's health, and if anything …

domain of retirement savings, we use a randomized experiment to explore people's intuition about how money accumulates over …

optimized”, even if they do not engage in any formal planning. We test this empirically in the domain of retirement saving using …

adequate standard of living after retirement to individuals and their households. Individuals have to make more decisions than …, since retirement planning requires intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty and is subject to behavioural and …

during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question what this standard should be … Netherlands. Key findings are that adequate levels of retirement spending exceed 80 percent of working life spending for a …