employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … increase her assets prior to retirement. For women with a high risk of divorce, later exposure to increases in divorce risk …

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …

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 …

so using information on older males from the Health and Retirement Study over the 1980-1997 period to calculate the …

This paper assesses how retirement - defined as permanent labor force non-participation in a man's mature years … - affects psychological welfare. The raw correlation between retirement and well-being is negative. But this does not imply … affect well-being might disproportionately select into retirement. Discontinuous retirement incentives in the Social Security …

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … the OV model proposed by Stock and Wise (1990a, 1990b), we found that the probability of retirement has a negative and … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …

changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …

of the interaction between the SS system and retirement behavior. We begin by documenting historical trends in labor … the relationship between SS and retirement. Finally, we present results of a simulation model which measures the implicit …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of …

-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections … longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …