This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative …

, negative effect on the probability of post-retirement work. A 10% increase in benefit size decreases the probability of work 3 … a mean of 12.8%). For both spouses, the effect erodes in later years of retirement. …

retirement for French private sector workers. Using the last French survey on households' wealth (2003-2004), we first study the …

distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing … search effort of unemployed workers reinforces our main results. …

decision impacts on the search intensity of older workers before this age. Countries with a retirement age at 60 are indeed …. We then extend McCall’s (1970) job search model by explicitly integrating life-cycle features and the retirement decision … actuarially-fair schemes, not only extends the retirement age, but also encourages a more intensive job-search by older unemployed …

health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …

the labour force behaviour of older people in Ireland. Workers close to retirement age face a trade-off between earnings … are an important feature of the opportunity set for older workers planning their retirement. Our results highlight the … important variation in the Irish retirement system and hence it is difficult to draw general conclusions. Nonetheless, our …

standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …