Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due … to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship … between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent crisis. While …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … participation of older workers. The third phase demonstrated the consequent fiscal implications that extending labor force …

probabilities to be admitted DI we show how changes in the stringency of DI admittance affects labor supply among older workers …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … participation of older workers. The third phase demonstrated the consequent fiscal implications that extending labor force … older persons will increase the unemployment of youth. The fifth phase on "Historical Trends in Mortality and Health …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal …

pensions for a longer time while there are less workers per retiree to shoulder the financial burden of the pension systems …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of … incorporation of the old and disabled into the labor force may therefore have a minimal impact on retirement rates. The findings …

The paper is an empirical cross-section study of the retirement decisions of American white men between the ages of 58 … circumstances of older workers. The two equations are estimated jointly by maximum likelihood, which takes into account the …). The model is reasonably successful in predicting retirement decisions, and casts serious doubt on previous claims that the …