We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

Cross-country variation in effective retirement age is usually attributed to institutional differences that affect … its average effective retirement age. Using U.S. Census data we infer the average retirement age by occupation, which we … then use to predict the retirement age of 38 countries, using the occupational distribution of these countries. Our …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The project was launched in the mid 1990s and was motivated by decades of … program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly correlated with the labor force behavior of … reforms of retirement incentives and employ micro-econometric methods in order to study whether the correlation between …

This paper shows that labor income plays an important positive role for the decision to work after retirement … elasticity. Men are more attracted by earnings incentives than women. Also individuals who work until retirement can easier be … attracted by financial incentives to work after retirement than those with bridge options. Our analysis is based on a …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … development is intertwined with the major aging trends around the world. This discussion includes the origins of the HRS model … HRS-style data to advance our understanding of population aging and successfully inform the policy and business practices …

This monograph surveys the results of government intervention in the market for retirement income provision throughout … its best to crowd out private initiative, but, where they are allowed to, families make provision for retirement in all … provision for their retirement. So-called 'market failure' will always ensure that the result is imperfect. But, by comparison …

aging. Controlling for socio-demographic factors, we find higher levels of well-being for older persons relative to their …