TY - JOUR AU - Gustman,Alan L. AU - Steinmeier,Thomas L. TI - Retirement Flows JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 1069 PY - 1984 Y2 - September 1984 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1069 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1069.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Alan L. Gustman Department of Economics Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755-3514 Tel: 603/646-2641 Fax: 603/646-2122 E-Mail: ALAN.L.GUSTMAN@DARTMOUTH.EDU AB - This paper considers labor market flows of older workers among the states of nonretirement, partial retirement and full retirement.Statistics are presented which describe entry, exit and continuation rates for each state by age, duration dependence, and "reverse flows."One important finding which has implications for the structure of utility functions embedded in life cycle retirement models is the relatively high incidence but short duration of partial retirement.These implications are discussed. ER -