proposed model is that it will generate equal durations with positive probability. The motivating example is retirement … retirement time depends on the retirement time of the spouse. Moreover, the data suggest that the wife and the husband retire at … in retirement to depend on the retirement status of the spouse. The econometric model is then completed by assuming that …

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 …