reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

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 …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

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 …

, 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. …

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 …

, 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. …

survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …

a strong trend towards later retirement as a result of social and economic pressures, without any policy action. The … results will be largely positive and should therefore be supported by policy whenever possible. Delaying work-retirement … provide consistency in signals about retirement ages. …