This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … particular ethnic minority groups is used to proxy the potential differences in the culture of aging and caregiving. We find that …. Further careful research is needed to help understand the differences in perceptions of aging among China's rural ethnic …

retirement before the termination of the contract. When retirement is an event which occurs exogenously and information is … workers who will retire early (the "bad" workers) from applying for these jobs. Secondly, we endogenize the retirement … the "bad" workers. These asymmetries in the information lead to an excess of retirement compared to the full information …

A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have … argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to this literature using data of older women … association between retirement and cognitive functioning. These estimates are based on the assumption that retirement is exogenous …

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …