This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … particular ethnic minority groups is used to proxy the potential differences in the culture of aging and caregiving. We find that …. Further careful research is needed to help understand the differences in perceptions of aging among China's rural ethnic …

This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using … microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we … do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for …

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 …

Population aging in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, most observers agree that the … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It ….e., Gender × Education) at typical retirement age. It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that would be …

their resources and their actual personal intentions towards retirement. Research objective is to analyse the relationship … among several factors that affect the behaviour towards retirement, the financial management practices and the financial … influence of financial literacy, financial retirement objectives, optimism on retirement, tolerance to financial risk, and the …

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 …

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

evidence of the health effects of retirement. In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and … the effect of spending longer time in retirement. Using spouses' characteristics as instruments, while taking precautions … to ensure validity, we find a robust, negative impact of being retired and spending longer time in retirement on …

retirement before the termination of the contract. When retirement is an event which occurs exogenously and information is … workers who will retire early (the "bad" workers) from applying for these jobs. Secondly, we endogenize the retirement … the "bad" workers. These asymmetries in the information lead to an excess of retirement compared to the full information …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …