We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel … data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut …

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 …