address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance … the early retirement option, the simulations indicate that a means test mitigates the moral hazard problem substantially. …

The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …

employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …

low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …

educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …