: financial, personal and familial. Catalytic financial influences included employer programs and enrolment in retirement courses …

their resources and their actual personal intentions towards retirement. Research objective is to analyse the relationship … among several factors that affect the behaviour towards retirement, the financial management practices and the financial … influence of financial literacy, financial retirement objectives, optimism on retirement, tolerance to financial risk, and the …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

evidence of the health effects of retirement. In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and … the effect of spending longer time in retirement. Using spouses' characteristics as instruments, while taking precautions … to ensure validity, we find a robust, negative impact of being retired and spending longer time in retirement on …

retirement before the termination of the contract. When retirement is an event which occurs exogenously and information is … workers who will retire early (the "bad" workers) from applying for these jobs. Secondly, we endogenize the retirement … the "bad" workers. These asymmetries in the information lead to an excess of retirement compared to the full information …

This paper investigates how retirement influences the cognitive abilities of British older workers. The analysis …. Consistent with the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, we show that retirement induces cognitive decline, although the relationship … that maintaining a mentally engaging and stimulating life-style during retirement contributes to the cognitive health of …

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 … association between retirement and cognitive functioning. These estimates are based on the assumption that retirement is exogenous …