This volume addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and … health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender …

supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in to minimum wages, unemployment benefits and retirement regulation? Do …. Participation, in turn, has been shaped by sometimes complicated interaction between educational choices, retirement, policy changes …

Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment … choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the … reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and spending in retirement are anything but average for women. Consequently …

This paper provides new evidence of coordination of retirement by mature age couples in Australia. Two complementary … modeling the retirement behaviour of partnered men and women. First, a single risk hazard model provides insights into the … influences of a spouse's characteristics on the retirement decision of the individual. Second, a competing-risks framework is …

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting male and female workers' retirement confidence …. Retirement confidence in this study was measured with series of questions on confidence about retirement income prospects. Using … the 1999 Retirement Confidence Survey, it was found that working men compared to women; who were younger; had higher …