To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …

contributions boosted in many nations. Yet our research on old-age system reforms does not require raising mandatory retirement ages … or contributions. Instead, we offer ways to enhance incentives for people to work longer and delay retirement. There are … good reasons to incentivize older people to work longer and delay retirement. These include rising longevity, the shrinking …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …

pensions, and Social Security profiles available at alternative retirement ages. Then we examine four specific changes in the … structure of Social Security benefits: raising the normal retirement age, delaying the cost-of-living adjustment, lowering early … retirement benefits, and increasing late retirement payments. Behavioral parameters are estimated using an ordered logit model of …

pensions, and Social Security profiles available at alternative retirement ages. Then we examine four specific changes in the … structure of Social Security benefits: raising the normal retirement age, delaying the cost-of-living adjustment, lowering early … retirement benefits, and increasing late retirement payments. Behavioral parameters are estimated using an ordered logit model of …

We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …

We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …