-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours … 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 …

older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung workers. This finding provides an explanation of the observed fall … ofparticipation rates of elder workers as a result of the post-war increase intax rates and replacement rates. We show that the age … pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various … rnarket status is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the 'Health and Retirement Nexus …

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction … their retirement probability increases in a sizable way. We also find that the procedure to impute seniority used in …

increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different … this prediction is most likely to be relevant for elderly workers who have accumulated wealth throughout their working life … workers so far has concentrated on properties of the pension system and health status. For a sample of elderly male workers in …

reforms that were implemented in the Netherlands have helped or hindered employment opportunities of workers with health … opportunities of disabled workers. However, the reforms also impose substantial costs on employers when an employee gets sick and … may therefore reduce employme nt opportunities of disabled workers. We use data from the Dutch Labor Force Survey and rich …