The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men … retirement. Regarding women, whether public pension rules play a role is unclear. Most probably, the secular change of women …

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 …

-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 …

The share of workers who are self-employed rises markedly with age. Given policy concerns about inadequate retirement …

job demands, potentially leading to early retirement. We link longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data to O …-limiting health problems, mental health, subjective probabilities of retirement, and labor market status. While we find that physical …

respect to work, retirement, Social Security, and age discrimination law. We present estimates of poverty by age and sex … summarize research on how older women were differentially negatively impacted by the elimination of Social Security's Retirement …

In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …

schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job …