and have a short residual working life. In the Netherlands, as in other European countries, there is a policy debate about … increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different … the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpectedshock in their financial situation around retirement and … distribution of expectations andrealizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes-simistic and attach more …

important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement …

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 …

scheme contains within-cohort redistribution and induces early retirement. Such a Pareto-improving reform entails the …-neutrality that stimulates later retirement further improves such a flexibility reform. …

In the Netherlands a transition takes place fromearly retirement schemes, which are characterizedby high implicit tax …