This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

retirement savings contributions and information search processes. We combine ideas from the literature in psychology and … economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results … that individual's financial constraints. In particular, we find that uncertainty increases retirement contributions for …

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

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

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 and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …