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 …

that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume … former occupational prestige value, the higher the perceived loss of prestige after retirement. Thus, doing a job with high … prestige value increases the incentive to volunteer in retirement. This assumption is tested, using data taken from the German …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …