This paper investigates the relationship between pension coverage and the retirement behavior of older men. Pensions … retirement …

benefits reduce the pre-retirement labor supply (and earnings) of men who are likely to participate in SSI after retirement as …' supplementation of the federal SSI benefit to estimate the effects of the SSI program on pre-retirement labor supply, using data from … they near the eligibility age, especially that of men who have reached the age of eligibility for early Social Security …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using …-participation among men at low and high BMI levels and the elasticity of non-participation with respect to BMI were greater than today …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the employment and retirement behavior of men aged … after a job loss, whereas for a 62-year-old job loser, the probability is less than a third. Once re-employed, men 50 and … a substantial gap between the employment rates of men who have and have not lost jobs, that lasts at least seven years …

longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …The labor force participation rate of older men under age 65 has shown a significant recent decline. Cross …-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections …

We estimate the impact of employer-provided retiree health insurance on the rate at which men aged 51-62 enter and exit … dynamic stochastic model of employment behavior of older individuals. We use data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS …

financial shocks. One consequence of this financial vulnerability is that many individuals use a portion of their retirement … before retirement (Argento, Bryant, and Sabelhaus 2015). We explore the practical considerations and challenges associated … with helping households accumulate liquid savings that can be deployed when urgent pre-retirement needs arise …

The paper develops a model of retirement based on the option value of continuing to work. Continuing to work maintains … the option of retiring on more advantageous terms later. The model is used to estimate the effects on retirement of firm … remain with the firm until some age, often the early retirement age, and then a strong incentive to leave the firm thereafter …

, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their working lives. Unlike previous work which has typically … is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on … the normal retirement age, eliminating early retirement altogether and eliminating the Social Security Disability …

This paper provides an overview of the Swedish social security system and its impact on individual retirement behavior …. We find that the observed labor market behavior of older men is in accordance with the economic incentives generated by …