Improved understanding of retirement behavior is a key to better understanding of many important economic problems. In … the period we study the retirement patterns of a cohort of white males: 28% on average between 1970 and 1972, with the … of most active retirement behavior (ages 58-67) over a period of abrupt change in the economic incentives surrounding …

the effect of social security on the early retirement decision. Toward this end, section 2 presents a brief description of … some previous studies of retirement behavior. While each in its own way has been suggestive, each also (including one by … the elderly, and three approaches to analyzing a given body of data. We then propose a new way of estimating retirement …

willing to take some risk, investments in the stock market could increase their economic preparation for retirement, and …

We study the influence of job characteristics on prospective retirement as measured by the probability of working past … from the Health and Retirement Survey, we find that physical and mental job requirements have a rather small influence on … prospective retirement, whereas measures of job flexibility and financial aspects of the job are important determinants …

Improved understanding of retirement behavior is a key to better understanding of many important economic problems. In … the period we study the retirement patterns of a cohort of white males: 28% on average between 1970 and 1972, with the … of most active retirement behavior (ages 58-67) over a period of abrupt change in the economic incentives surrounding …

the effect of social security on the early retirement decision. Toward this end, section 2 presents a brief description of … some previous studies of retirement behavior. While each in its own way has been suggestive, each also (including one by … the elderly, and three approaches to analyzing a given body of data. We then propose a new way of estimating retirement …

In 1997, Mexico transformed its pay-as-you-go social-security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement … accounts, including management fees. This paper examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from this new system. It found … management fees drained a significant proportion of individuals’ retirement wealth and had the effect of increasing the number of …