This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

. Here we show that social security income (i.e., income from public, industry-wide, insurance-based, retirement and … disability programs) is most important for men who exit at older ages in the four countries (Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and …, Canada, and Great Britain plays a much more important role in replacing the labor earnings of men who exit at older ages than …