We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as … retirement, and progress through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and thus earnings became less … important with age, while Social Security and retirement savings rose as a proportion of annual income …

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 …

measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers …

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early … retirement incentive. The reduction of incentives mainly stems from the introduction of actuarial deductions for early retirement …

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 …

composition for people in their pre and post-retirement years …

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 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 …

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 …