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 …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … in mortality over time and in particular the relationship between mortality and labor force participation, thinking of … mortality as one indicator of health that is comparable across countries and over time in the same country. We then consider how …

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 …, the third step of our analysis, we exploit the time-series and cross-national variation in the timing and extent of …

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 …

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 …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its …

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 …

Many recent reforms raise the age of retirement. But can all older individuals work longer? To answer that question …

The cost of old-age dependency leads to reforms aimed at raising the age or retirement. But do older individuals have …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical …