influence the retirement decisions of older workers in two ways. First, workers in industries that are characterized by high … rates of technological chanqe will have later retirement ages because these industries require larger amounts of on …

We present new evidence to support our earlier finding that there was no appreciable trend in the rate of retirement … for American men between 1870 and 1930. The data suggests that Jon Moen's claim that retirement increased appreciably …

In this paper, I employ data drawn from the Social Security Administration's Retirement History Survey (RHS) to study … the accuracy of expectations concerning the timing of retirement. The RHS is ideally suited for this purpose, in that it … collects information on retirement plans, and follows respondents through time so that one can identify actual dates of …

to lift the age of mandatory retirement. Evidence on a longitudinal sample of pension plans from 1960 to the present … suggests:(1) During the 1960-70 period, Social Security increases generated changes in pensions favoring early retirement; and … retirement age …

This paper examines the role of economic factors in determining retirement behavior using a unique new data archive on … different retirement models including linear as well as discrete choice formulations. This framework provides new insights into … how andwhy retirement ages differ across firms. We conclude that older workers' income opportunities differ depending on …

-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections … longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …

. Conventional analyses of wage profiles pool all waqe observations without distin-guishing among individuals according to retirement …

retirement behavior and related policy analyses. Potential biases associated with conventional analyses, which either ignore the … retirement models. A more realistic but still imperfect specification, which can be estimated given available data, assumes …

This paper examines the phenomenon of partial retirement . Topics covered include: (1) the quantitative importance of … partial retirement, (2) institutional constraints in addition to mandatory retirement which limit the opportunity to retire … life cycle retirement model, (4) the impact of standard explanatory variables on four outcomes -- complete retirement …