This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

Increasing retirement ages in an automatic or scheduled way with increasing life expectancy at retirement is a popular … process, model, and parameter risks. The results show that: (i) retirement ages are forecasted to increase substantially in … the coming decades, particularly if a constant period in retirement is targeted; (ii) retirement age policy outcomes may …

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. …