, economic resources, and to documented cross-national variation in labor market and social security institutions. Differential … 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 …

state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily … from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a structural … retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of …

In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in … Union. We find that the self-employed in Europe generally face significantly higher income poverty risks than contracted …

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using …. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our …

-country research using these instruments. While the short-term health impact of retirement in Europe remains uncertain, the medium- to … 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 …

Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour market and from personal motivation to prefer …

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship- facilitating entry … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never … affected both occupational groups in opposite ways. Our findings indicate that labor market institutions do not play an …

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never … affected both occupational groups in opposite ways. Our findings indicate that labor market institutions do not play an …