people do not know what amount will be paid out on retirement and/or whether the payments will be in the form of lump …

retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. -- Retirement ; training …

. -- Older workers ; labor market institutions ; employment ; employment protection ; welfare state ; pensions ; retirement …

We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement … expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using administrative records on Social Security benefit …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …

scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …