This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpected shock in their financial situation around retirement and whether the related expectations and realizations match each other. We use the Dutch Social Economic Panel survey data, where expectations about the next year's financial...

This study examines the expected retirement replacement rates of several cohorts of Dutch employees at the time of their planned retirements. It also imputes the actual replacement rates based on available pension records. We find that using reasonable indexation rates, the expected replacement...

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...