of older people for a rich set of retirement trajectories charactersized by early or delayed full retirement as well as … partial retirement at various ages in the Netherlands and the United States. Two in five prefer partial retirement over early … or delayed abrupt full retirement. This suggests that partial retirement can substantially increase the utility derived …

Cross-national comparisons of data from developed countries offer useful insights into the retirement process and … Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) project, and we compare these with results in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We … examine the relative importance of health, wealth, family, and other factors in work and retirement at older ages cross …

Retirement brings with it the promises of leisure and freedom as well as the risks of boredom and isolation. When … experience a sometimes-uncomfortable absence of structure. In The Experience of Retirement, the distinguished sociologist Robert … S. Weiss provides a detailed description of how some people plan their retirement, what life in retirement is like, and …

the State of the Union address. That highlighted a bigger problem of financing retirement as baby boomers seek to retire …, a noted expert on retirement, argues that the "working longer" idea is wrong, unnecessary, and discriminates against … people who work in lower wage occupations. Ghilarducci pushes for a national plan to finance retirement that would draw on …