agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age … retirement. However, well designed education programs will keep more workers in highly productive activities at the end of their …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … problems make older workers more responsive to financial incentives encouraging retirement (reinforcement proposition). We test …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for … their retirement decision. We find significant positive effects on informal care provided by women retiring from employment …

countries, these debates grow in intensity with the aging of the population; however, an increase in retirement age may create …) retirement on individual inpatient and outpatient healthcare expenditure in Austria. We use comprehensive labor market and … retirement data from the Austrian Social Security Database, together with detailed information about individual inpatient and …