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 …

employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …

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 present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …

adult labor supply behaviors in Singapore. We first evaluate the impact of the Retirement and Re-employment Act (RRA) reform …

close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …