Although elderly men and women share many of the same problems as they age, their lives are likely to follow different … courses. Women are more likely than men to live into old old-age and are more likely to spend part of their young old …-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this unpaid care women might enter retirement earlier, rather than prolonging …

I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar women on either side of the kink point. I find that a 100 euro …

Frauen in Deutschland verdienen im Erwerbsleben nicht nur weniger Geld als Männer, sie beziehen im Alter auch weniger …