It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including … health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data … response patterns. The usefulness of the health indexes is then investigated by including it in some simple retirement models …

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 …

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P … -- Retirement saving -- The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti …

This paper investigates the consequences of pension reform for life-cycle unemployment and retirement. We find that (i … retirement and boosts efficiency; and (iv) extending the calculation period favors employment of young workers, might possibly … lead to more unemployment among older ones, encourages postponed retirement and most likely yields positive welfare gains …

We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by … the retirement age fosters economic growth. How economic growth changes in response to rising life expectancy depends on … the retirement response. Employing numerical analysis we find that the requirement for experiencing a growth stimulus from …