retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced … investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence the decision to have private retirement savings, and the estimated … probability to have such savings. Extraversion also positively effects the size of retirement related savings as does having an …

This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced … investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence the decision to have private retirement savings, and the estimated … probability to have such savings. Extraversion also positively effects the size of retirement related savings as does having an …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

. This study examines relationships between establishment training programs, wages, and retirement among older men and women … retirement patterns suggests this relationship may not be causal. Our research suggests targeted training programs likely play an …

employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

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 …