In three empirical essays, this dissertation investigates changes in consumer behavior during the retirement transition … changes or an involuntary retirement, and the mechanisms through which these factors operate, such as personal adjustment need …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

retirement before the termination of the contract. When retirement is an event which occurs exogenously and information is … workers who will retire early (the "bad" workers) from applying for these jobs. Secondly, we endogenize the retirement … the "bad" workers. These asymmetries in the information lead to an excess of retirement compared to the full information …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …