job demands, potentially leading to early retirement. We link longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data to O …-limiting health problems, mental health, subjective probabilities of retirement, and labor market status. While we find that physical … effects of declines in fine motor skills and cognition are not statistically different across differing occupational job …

societies. In the light of policies aimed at postponing retirement ages, an important question is whether retirement has an … the change in cognitive functioning. As retirement and cognitive functioning may be endogenously related, we use … unexpected early retirement window o ers to instrument for retirement behavior. These offers are legally required to be unrelated …

We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing … and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries … using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50. The human capital framework suggests that retirement may …

labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …

also larger in the US than in England. Finally, cognition has little added explanatory power once we also control for … health, suggesting that cognition is not a key driver of employment at these ages. …