The growing popularity of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and defined contribution (DC) pension plans, which … ages. People who enter retirement with little of their wealth annuitized run the risk of spending too quickly and depleting … comfortable a retirement as they could afford.This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), including a recent …

This paper examines the role of employer provided health insurance in the retirement decisions of dual working couples … factor in their retirement decisions. We determine if access to retiree health insurance for early retirement enables couples … to time their retirement together %u2013 a behavior called %u201Cjoint retirement.%u201D We find that wives%u2019 retiree …

Using harmonised data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (for England), the Health and Retirement Study (for … the US) and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (for 11 European countries), this paper estimates the … impact of retirement on the self-assessed general health and physical health of individuals who retired between 2004 and 2007 …

retirement incentive. The reduction of incentives mainly stems from the introduction of actuarial deductions for early retirement … and from the abolishment of specific early retirement pathways …