This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …

that financial incentives for early retirement stem mainly from the Austrian tax system and not from the pension system …

Japan faces the problem of how to finance retirement, health, and long-term care expenditures as the population ages …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a …