Both the impacts of financial incentives and health on transitions into retirement and inactivity by older workers have … incentives on the retirement behaviour of workers who experienced health shocks and those who remained in good health. Our … evidence suggests that the impact on retirement of forward-looking incentive measures such as the peak value is conditional on …

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative …, while the effect on satisfaction with leisure is positive. At the same time, the effect on health satisfaction is positive …

This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. First, a … longitudinal survey among older Americans allows controlling for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement … decision. Second, a cross-national European survey allows identifying the causal effect of retirement on cognition by using the …

consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production … of both partners in a couple. Our identification strategy exploits the earliest age retirement laws in France, enabling a … fuzzy regression discontinuity approach. We find that own retirement significantly increases own hours of home production …

system in the Netherlands to calculate net replacement rates at each age from 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement … analyze the implications of late full retirement and partial retirement for the occupational and state pension entitlements …. We pay particular attention to the retirement scenarios that are relevant for the current policy measures, aimed at …

The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore … retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990 … explicitly takes into account the different take‐up rates of the various early retirement exit paths across time and ages. The …

nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … pensions and retiree health insurance have the largest influence on retirement, the opportunity cost associated with outside …This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women …

retirement route for employees. A difference-in-differences analysis shows that job search requirements among unemployed older …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …