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 …

This paper presents new evidence on the effects of retirement benefits on labor force participation decisions. The … analysis is based on a mandated rule for employer-provided retirement benefits in Austria that creates discontinuities in the … incentives for workers to delay retirement. We present graphical evidence on labor supply responses and effective financial …

combine high-quality survey and administrative data. Our results suggest that partial or gradual retirement options offered by …

to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time- and age profiles of … wages, taxes, and the public pension system. The early retirement provision in most pension systems acts as a trap, inducing … most workers to retire well before the normal retirement age. Simulations show that pension reform must be drastic for it …

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

retirement and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of prime …