standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …

force participation is related to both a decline in the take-up of early retirement among 60-64-year-olds, an increase in … the average age of entry to a retirement program, and an increase in the propensity of working after entering a retirement … unemployment before retirement, age and education. …

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using …. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. …

We analyze the relationship between the age profile of retirement within an immigrant population and aggregate return … probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. This implies that different immigrant populations will have different … retirement profiles, not only because individual retirement behavior differs, but also because the propensity for return …

We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of (Continental) European males … the cross country and time variation in employment protection legislation and minimum retirement age to study whether … policies that have increased minimum retirement age and reduced the strictness of employment protection legislation have raised …

In 2007, Germany decided to progressively raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 in light of the increasing life … expectancy. As per the reform, the retirement age began increasing in 2012 and will reach 67 by 2031. The primary objective was …-year shift in the official retirement age leads to people working an average of one, 1.4, and 1.8 years longer, respectively …

strong early retirement penalties imposed on "regular" retirees effectively create an alternative path to early retirement …. In this paper, we explore this alternative path quantitatively. We develop a model of job search and retirement behavior … link early retirement penalties to the age at which an individual stops paying contributions. This reform removes the …

Externalities in leisure are considered an important reason for partners' joint retirement. This study quantifies the … extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time "together" at retirement. Exploiting legal retirement age in France …, we identify the effect of retirement on partners' hours of leisure, distinguishing leisure hours spent together or not …