Editing Retirement (section)

==History==
{{main|History of retirement}}
Retirement, or the practice of leaving one's job or ceasing to work after reaching a certain age, has been around since around the 18th century. Prior to the 18th century, humans had an average life expectancy between 26 and 40 years.<ref name=Galor&Moav2007>{{Cite web |year= 2007 |author1= Galor, Oded  |author2= Moav, Omer |url= http://www.brown.edu/academics/economics/sites/brown.edu.academics.economics/files/uploads/2007-14_paper.pdf |title= The Neolithic Revolution and Contemporary Variations in Life Expectancy |work= [[Brown University]] Working Paper |access-date= 12 September 2010 }}</ref><ref name="sticerd.lse.ac.uk">{{cite web |year= 2005 |author1= Galor, Oded  |author2= Moav, Omer |url= http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/seminarpapers/dg09102006.pdf |title= Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy |work= [[Brown University]] Working Paper |access-date= 4 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/241864.stm |title= A millennium of health improvement |work= BBC News |date= 27 December 1998 |access-date =4 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Expectations of Life">[https://books.google.com/books?id=T4DLK7zLxYMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA8 "Expectations of Life" by H.O. Lancaster] (page 8)</ref>
In consequence, only a small percentage of the population reached an age where physical impairments began to be obstacles to working.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} Countries began to adopt government policies on retirement during the late 19th century and the 20th century, beginning in [[German Empire|Germany]] under [[Otto von Bismarck]].<ref>
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| url   = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/jobs/the-history-of-retirement-from-early-man-to-aarp.html
| title = The History of Retirement, From Early Man to A.A.R.P.
| work  = [[The New York Times]]
| access-date = 23 December 2016
| author = Weisman, Mary-Lou
| date = 1999
| ref = hist
}}
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