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 …

differences in economic activity of people at near-retirement age. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical study uses … indicate that pensionable age is a determinant of cross-country differences in employment rate in the near-retirement age group …, and less a factor differentiating average effective retirement age. It turns out that other factors matter, including …

International contributors apply lifecourse approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement …. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in …

How do demographic factors influence retirement? Using a large cross-country data set, I show that in countries with a … larger share of elderly in their population the length of retirement is longer. This result holds true if I control for … retirement age. Retirement policies and the social security size are strictly related: a new variable, representing the aggregate …

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 …