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 …Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and …

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand …-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement … based on international microdata covering 19 industrialized countries. The results indicate that generous early retirement …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), we … work longer. When we explore the reasons for delayed retirement among older women, factors include education, more marital … with retirement planning include having more education and greater financial literacy. Those who report excessive amounts …

In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … reasons: first, it has low rates of female employment and little formal child care provision, and second, it has undergone … mothers are retirement eligible have a 11 percent higher probability of being in the labor force than those whose mothers are …

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 …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …

usefulness of policies such as gradual retirement and part-time work in increasing older workers’ employment. …