This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the employment and retirement behavior of men aged … a substantial gap between the employment rates of men who have and have not lost jobs, that lasts at least seven years …. The employment rates of men who lose jobs in their fifties eventually converge with those of non-displaced workers of the …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4 percentage points for men and 8.5 percentage points for women due to … the reform. The employment response is driven disproportionately by full-time workers and self-employed men, and is larger …