important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different …

incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a UI-embedded, government-subsidized early retirement (ER) program, giving …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

retirement schemes into less generous and actuarially fair capital funded schemes. The starting dates of the transitional … the policy reform on early retirement behaviour. We use a large administrative dataset, the Dutch Income Panel 1989 …-2000, to estimate hazard rate models for early retirement. We conclude that the policy reform induced workers to postpone early …

cumulation. There are also limited precautionary motives for wealth accumulation when households experience income uncertainty. …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpected shock in their financial situation around retirement and … conditional distribution of expectations and realizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes- simistic and …