This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

Increasing retirement ages in an automatic or scheduled way with increasing life expectancy at retirement is a popular … process, model, and parameter risks. The results show that: (i) retirement ages are forecasted to increase substantially in … the coming decades, particularly if a constant period in retirement is targeted; (ii) retirement age policy outcomes may …

This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an …