A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have … argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to this literature using data of older women … from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Ordinary least square (OLS) regressions show a significant negative …

A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have … argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to this literature using data of older women … from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Ordinary least square (OLS) regressions show a significant negative …

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the …We analyze the causal effect of retirement on the size, composition and intensity of social relationships using data … different retirement eligibility ages as instruments for the endogenous individuals' retirement decisions and controls for time …

by the removal of the pathways to early retirement. In order to allow people to work longer, labour market flexibility … increase the labour force participation of youth, childbearing age women and the long-term unemployed. Finally, ageing should …