retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of …

left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However …, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract as the … optimal contract that integrates unemployment insurance and retirement pension systems. …

. It is likely that the individual level of wealth will become an increasingly important factor in the retirement decision …

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

models. We estimated these models using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This paper uses option value model …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons … theory we know that there are potential gains to both workers and firms of allowing hours to rise in work experience. Second … increase in the hours supplied by older workers in the last two decades. We review the relevant theory, model the trade …

is both distortionary and inequitable. Early retirement and pension schemes should be made actuarially fairer as they …

by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …

retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …