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 … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …

first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …

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 …

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 …

from the five available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to investigate if the dynamics introduced by …

The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …

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 …