context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals …

regarded as an example of "active ageing". In this study, we examine whether retirement has a causal effect on the frequency of … pensions in an instrumental variable estimation to address potential confounding. We find that retirement increases the …

is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The … substitution effect of earned income is negative, thus decreasing the retirement probability. The retirement decision is strongly … state persistent for up to three years after the initial retirement decision and the state persistence of retirement is …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …

support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support moderates dynamics in mental wellbeing around … retirement and consider both own and spouse's retirement. Using longitudinal data from Australia, we find little effect of own or … spouse's retirement on social support. However, in fixed-effects models, dynamics in mental wellbeing are significantly …

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative … voluntary and involuntary retirement. The effect of involuntary retirement is negative because the adverse effect on …