Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

could be achieved if people retire from the work force later in life. Partial retirement, the option to work part-time while … drawing a pension before reaching the normal retirement age, could create the necessary conditions for reaching this goal. The … impact of partial retirement on employment will be simulated below. The results show that unrestricted access to partial …

We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel … data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut …

in simple positions will not modify their retirement decision unless taxes change. Using data from France, we find that …This paper investigates the role of productivity as a determinant of the worker's retirement intentions. Using an … overlapping generation framework, we analyze the retirement decision of a cohort of workers being ability heterogeneous. The labor …

In this study, I investigate the effect of partial retirement at the firm level on older workers' labor participation …. Thereby, I contribute to the controversial debate about the effects of partial retirement. Using detailed administrative … employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit the introduction of partial retirement options in Germany related to the law on …

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …