This paper uses administrative data to study the retirement decisions of Italian private-sector non … continue to work. Our model does not provide a structural representation of the retirement process. A worker's decision is …'s choice in addition to standard variables. The estimated models are then used to predict retirement probabilities under …

In this paper we take advantage of differences in the legal status of mandatory retirement in Canada across … retirement illegal would have little effect on the size of the older workforce, and therefore such a policy alone would do little …

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 …

, we explore the employers behaviour and the role of governments in the development of early retirement schemes. We show … that early retirement is the result of a global agreement between firms and government where workers have incentives to … because they are costly compared to young workers and governments hope that by pushing elderly into early retirement they will …

Policy initiatives such as increases in the full retirement age implicitly reduce benefits for early retirement. Yet … to what extent physical job demand relates to early retirement decisions in a population of aging manufacturing workers … retirement. We also examine whether pension eligibility and payouts induce earlier retirement, especially for those with more …

retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of … assortative mating and/or complementarities in leisure; the effects of all relevant factors on the retirement decision of one … poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement …

retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform extending long-term care (LTC) benefits (in the form of subsidies and … supports) in Spain after 2007 on caregiving spouse's early retirement intention. We subsequently examine the effect of … retirement reform among private sector workers in 2013. We document evidence of a 10pp reduction in the early retirement …

Do individuals make rational, well-planned retirement age decisions? Evidence is not conclusive; some decisions seem to …. The process an individual uses to make a retirement decision may be influenced by a rational allocation of money, time … strongly influenced by an anchor, defined by the retirement ages chosen by friends, neighbors, relatives, and colleagues, as …

This paper is concerned with the implications of demographic and labor force changes for work and retirement. It … discusses the role of gradual retirement in introducing flexibility into the range of choices between work and retirement. Part … I explains the rationale for gradual retirement. Part II discusses some of the major barriers and possible solutions to …

This paper investigates the relationship between local crime rates and the retirement decisions of older Americans. We … do so by linking data from the Health and Retirement Study with measures of local crime patterns taken from the Federal … associated with early retirement may be correlated with residence in higher-crime rate cities, so next we condition on both the …