that Social Security's induced retirement motive is much more important for explaining differences among European countries … retirement, its generational incidence can be very different than the incidence of a pyramid scheme, even for those countries … where the induced retirement motive is not the dominant one. The possibility of induced retirement also makes it difficult …

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

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 …

As Americans work longer in response to a changing retirement landscape, it is important to ask whether there are … disparities in the employment of prime-age individuals. In this study, we explore the geography of retirement using data from the …

to lift the age of mandatory retirement. Evidence on a longitudinal sample of pension plans from 1960 to the present … suggests:(1) During the 1960-70 period, Social Security increases generated changes in pensions favoring early retirement; and … retirement age …

This paper examines the role of economic factors in determining retirement behavior using a unique new data archive on … different retirement models including linear as well as discrete choice formulations. This framework provides new insights into … how andwhy retirement ages differ across firms. We conclude that older workers' income opportunities differ depending on …

-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 …

. Conventional analyses of wage profiles pool all waqe observations without distin-guishing among individuals according to retirement …

retirement behavior and related policy analyses. Potential biases associated with conventional analyses, which either ignore the … retirement models. A more realistic but still imperfect specification, which can be estimated given available data, assumes …