This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an … percent of their annual income. The paper further shows that the negative income shock had no impact on the health of …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of …

We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While … previous studies looked at the impact of bad working conditions on retirement intentions, we can use the panel dimension to … study actual retirement as well as other pathways out of a job. As indicators for job quality we use three different …

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …

The paper reviews large literature on retirement, keeping in mind the goal of finding a suitable model to the labour … defining retirement. The second section deals with a multitude of labour market exit channels. Specific features of modelling … old-age retirement, disability, sick leave, and unemployment of the aged are explained. The third section is concerned …

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement. …

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the …We analyze the causal effect of retirement on the size, composition and intensity of social relationships using data … different retirement eligibility ages as instruments for the endogenous individuals' retirement decisions and controls for time …

This paper studies the way in which labor market fluctuations affect the transition to early retirement among older … industry employment increases (decreases) the probability of early retirement. This result is driven by the public sector; in … after early retirement are higher during declining as well as expanding industry employment. The results support an …