-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours … 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 …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted … after age 75 and is driven by workers holding blue-collar jobs. Finally, we evaluate the effect of the reform on earnings …

pensions for a longer time while there are less workers per retiree to shoulder the financial burden of the pension systems …

pensioners in the long run is the relationship between the pension system and the labour market. The timing of retirement … crucial for policymakers, especially in countries refraining from a systematic increase in the retirement age or that are even …