Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …

Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

We study whether individuals with different personality traits systematically exhibit different retirement trajectories …. We find weak direct associations between personality and employment transitions. On the other hand, personality does … with different traits are observed to follow different retirement paths when faced with similar physical demands, computer …

supply to mitigate the effects of negative shocks to the husband’s employment status. Using difference … increase employment in response to their husbands’ negative employment shocks. Instead, in older households, female … they can adjust their labor supply to mitigate the effects of spousal employment shocks. Our findings suggest that spousal …

Deborah Davis-Friedmann (1991) described the "retirement" pattern of the Chinese elderly in the prereform era as … failing health drives retirement. We exploit the panel dimension of the 1991-93-97 waves of the China Health and Nutrition …