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 …

surveys of individuals, life satisfaction in cross-section increases with age beyond retirement into advanced old age. It may … and Retirement Study (HRS) and also find increasing life satisfaction at older ages in cross-section. But based on the …

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 …

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 …

females because the trend toward early retirement among males will offset demographic changes. The size of the labor force …. Fourth, declining ages of retirement among males can be reversed by changes in social security policy. A decline in real … benefits and increase in the age of entitlement are likely to have the largest effects on raising the retirement age …

-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 …