Category Archives: Retirement

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Vol. 34, No. 2 Summer 2012

Contents Editorial Redesigning Long-term Care Finance and Delivery Joan Costa-Font, Martin Karlsson, and Bernard van den Berg Submitted Articles Why Do People Let Their Long-term Care Insurance Lapse? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Yong Li and Gail A. … Continue reading

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Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca Discussion Paper No. 6325 January 2012 In March of 2010, the Irish government announced that the age at which the state pension is paid would be raised to 66 in 2014, 67 in 2021 and … Continue reading

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Training and Retirement

Nicolai Kristensen IZA DP No. 6301, January 2012 This paper presents results on the effect of formal life-long learning on the decision to retire early. Specifically, I estimate an Option Value model based on individual employer-employee longitudinal data including   comprehensive … Continue reading

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