search behavior of households. The research finds that, even though a direct transition from a career job to full retirement …

experienced by all workers in this recession, could mean that laid-off disabled workers in their pre-retirement years may never … return to work. In this paper, we use data from the 2004-2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to examine how the …-being of disabled individuals nearing retirement …

. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we estimate a dynamic programming … model of retirement that accounts for both saving and uncertain medical expenses. Importantly, we model the two key channels …

, determinants of whether individuals near retirement remain in the labor force. We use previously-collected data on job … heterogeneity in preferences for job characteristics as a function of age and plans for retirement. We test whether preferences … whether preferences differ for retirement-aged individuals ages 62 and older who are working or not working …

, responsibility, difficulty, stress, peer pressure, and relations with co-workers are related to full or partial retirement. We study … employment transitions and retirement expectations of older workers by exploiting the wealth of information about individuals … older than age 50 in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and characteristics of different occupations provided by the …

Understanding how health decline influences retirement decisions is fundamental for the design of targeted policies … labor supply and retirement decisions, the process of how health deterioration affects labor supply remains a black box …

' resources and the demands of their jobs, restricting future work. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study … demands and workers' resources in two physical and two cognitive domains affect retirement outcomes. We estimate how changes … also estimate hazard models for transitions from full-time work to retirement. We found that declines in physical and …

supply, and retirement. Unlike all previous work, our model allows both an endogenous wage process (which is typically … the model and match the life-cycle profiles of wages, hours and retirement from SIPP data. We analyze the impact of health … shocks on retirement, as well as the effect of changes in payroll taxes and increases in the Normal Retirement Age on labor …

Cross-national comparisons of data from developed countries offer useful insights into the retirement process and … Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) project, and we compare these with results in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We … examine the relative importance of health, wealth, family, and other factors in work and retirement at older ages cross …