This paper presents estimates of the impact of Social Security's Delayed Retirement Credit on the employment rates of … older men. The credit raises lifetime social security benefit payments for recipients who delay receiving benefits after age … recent increases in social security's Normal Retirement Age also appear to be pushing up labor supply …

longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …The labor force participation rate of older men under age 65 has shown a significant recent decline. Cross …-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections …

longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …The labor force participation rate of older men under age 65 has shown a significant recent decline. Cross …-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections …

". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early … retirement incentive. The reduction of incentives mainly stems from the introduction of actuarial deductions for early retirement … and from the abolishment of specific early retirement pathways …

We estimate the impact of employer-provided retiree health insurance on the rate at which men aged 51-62 enter and exit … dynamic stochastic model of employment behavior of older individuals. We use data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS …

. Here we show that social security income (i.e., income from public, industry-wide, insurance-based, retirement and … disability programs) is most important for men who exit at older ages in the four countries (Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and … the United States) we consider and less so for men who exit at younger ages. Private pension income in the United States …