In this chapter, we review the evidence on retirement and study the role of incentives in the retirement decision. The … discrete drops in hours of work at the point of “retirement” are presented. We study the main retirement incentives that … individuals face and place these financial and other incentives in the context of a structural approach to modeling retirement. We …

Background: The pension deficit has been rapidly enlarging for more than a decade. If the retirement age is set at a … low level, it might trigger a pensions crisis. Since the average life span of the Chinese has extended from 71 to 76 years … old in last ten years, the feasibility of rising the retirement age has also been promoted. Methods: This paper aims to …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … particular ethnic minority groups is used to proxy the potential differences in the culture of aging and caregiving. We find that …. Further careful research is needed to help understand the differences in perceptions of aging among China's rural ethnic …