Retirement

This paper examines the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009-10. Published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

We use these data and earlier ELSA waves first to document the effect of the crisis on the finances of those aged 50 and over in England, and second, to estimate the effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future.

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes.

This paper examines changes in health and disability related transfers in the UK over the last thirty years, and describes how they are related to changes in labour force participation.

We use a unique dataset to construct measures of lifetime earnings and examine how these relate to financial resources in retirement.

This report looks at the level of wealth and the rate of saving of households in the UK on the eve of the global economic crisis.

This election briefing note reviews the policies that the three main UK political parties have announced in their manifestos that relate to state pensions, private pension saving, public sector pensions, and employment at older ages.

This paper tries to assess whether or not we have any empirical evidence of links between early retirement and youth unemployment.

This technical report focuses on ELSA's methodology and the conduct of wave 3.