surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …

educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …

to the statutory retirement age. In a first section we look at the income mix of early retirees and senior workers from a …

older men from the 1970s to the early 1990s, a trend that has only recently shown signs of being reversed. Retirement … different quot;retirementquot; experiences. At the top of the wealth distribution, early retirement has typically been …, disability benefits. Policy-makers keen to increase effective retirement ages will need to consider the very different …

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 …