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 …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … in the employment of older person would reduce the employment of younger persons. The validity of such claims is …

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 …

measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series …

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in … from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a … structural" retirement model suggest that the long run effects of changes in pension plans and social security" account for about …

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 …

Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … 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 …