We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as … retirement, and progress through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and thus earnings became less … important with age, while Social Security and retirement savings rose as a proportion of annual income …

leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject. Among the broad topics discussed are work and retirement behavior …, disability, and their relationship to the structure of retirement and disability policies. While choices about when to retire are … made by individuals, these decisions are influenced by a set of incentives, including retirement benefits and health care …