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 … and that rural residents continue to work until advanced ages. Differences in access to generous pensions and economic …

This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions … unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging) leading to lower interest rates also imply lower equilibrium unemployment rates …

This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions … unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging) leading to lower interest rates also imply lower equilibrium unemployment rates …

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 …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level …In this paper we consider the effects of population aging on a pay-as-you-go financed defined contributions pension … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …