concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP … satisfaction indeed is decreasing before retirement, is increasing at the entrance into retirement, and is decreasing then after …

to the statutory retirement age. In a first section we look at the income mix of early retirees and senior workers from a …

This paper provides a two-part empirical analysis on how actuarial reduction rates for early retirement affect current … retirement planning. First, by evaluating a large dataset of administrative records it becomes evident that early retirement … retirement if in turn they were willing to accept an actuarial reduction on their pension. It becomes evident that the maximum …