This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …

earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China …, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy …

response to changes in their parents' income. Exploiting a unique policy intervention in China, we examine using a difference …

conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement …Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a … 2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the … beyond education, the strongest predictors of labor force participation for China's rural elders are age, disability …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female …Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health … workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the causal effect of retirement on hospitalizations attributable to mental …

consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive … that the program leads to larger negative impacts among women. We demonstrate that retirement and access to a retirement …

developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …. -- retirement ; population aging ; labor supply ; pensions ; China ; Indonesia ; Korea …This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the …