employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …

of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …

retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover rates at a large sample of institutions before and after … retirement. Retirement rates at institutions that enforced mandatory retirement exhibited sharp spikesʺ at ages 70 and 71. About … retirement the retirement rates of 70 and 71-year-olds fell to levels comparable to 69- year-olds, and over one-half of 70-year …

In this paper we analyse early retirement pathways for Norwegian male and female workers. We apply a multinomial logit … and local unemployment, are important for the early retirement process. Our findings also indicate that there are several … females. We therefore reject the hypothesis that disability and unemployment are exchangeable pathways into early retirement. …