effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

that financial incentives for early retirement stem mainly from the Austrian tax system and not from the pension system …

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 …

We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …