Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … vary in the same way, i.e. improve unexpectedly after retirement for men. These findings suggest that, at least in the case …

concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP … satisfaction indeed is decreasing before retirement, is increasing at the entrance into retirement, and is decreasing then after …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …

Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement …