Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P … -- Retirement saving -- The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti …

authors consider the interactions between financial circumstances in later life, such as household savings and home ownership …

leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject. Among the broad topics discussed are work and retirement behavior …, disability, and their relationship to the structure of retirement and disability policies. While choices about when to retire are … made by individuals, these decisions are influenced by a set of incentives, including retirement benefits and health care …

, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the … volume should be of interest to any specialist or policymaker concerned with ongoing changes in savings and retirement … Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an …