This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be … addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative … are indicators of retirement plans, health status, family structure, income, wealth and employer policies affecting job …

The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly … systems—with a focus on retirement. The article argues that such effects are nonnegligible and are likely to have major policy …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …