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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs. temporary jobs are assumed to be generated by a dependent competing …

Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs. temporary jobs are assumed to be generated by a dependent competing … Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs. temporary jobs are assumed to be generated by a dependent competing …

in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …