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 …

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 study aimed to explore the impact of retirement on health through the application of a fixed effects instrumental …, physical independence, and self-rated health after retirement. Consistently, retirement was associated with reduced physical … inactivity and smoking among women, which was not observed among men. Sex differences in post-retirement health behaviors may …

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 …

Social insurance for the elderly is judged responsible for the widely observed trend towards early retirement. In a … distortion on the retirement decision. The main point we make is that while there is no doubt that retirement systems induce an … excessive bias towards early retirement in many countries, a complete elimination of this bias (i.e. a switch to an actuarially …

on national budgets will increase substantially. In Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World, Jonathan … Gruber, David A. Wise, and experts in many countries examine the consequences of reforming retirement benefits in a dozen …. Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security Programs -- 3. Fiscal Implications of Reforms in Retirement Systems …