We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clear-cut, but go in the same direction …

instruments are not specifically designed for retirement purposes. There is thus a risk of insufficient saving at old-age. We …

for a job. This is because of the short time-horizon of workers close to retirement. We propose to introduce a pension tax … pension tax allows those workers near retirement who still do not exercise job search to smooth their consumption during their …

-free. Second, the short job duration before retirement implies that the budgetary return and search incentives associated with the …. Finally, even in the special case where search intensity is zero close to retirement, perfect risk-sharing across unemployment … and retirement is welfare-improving thanks to the pension tax …

for a job. This is because of the short time-horizon of workers close to retirement. We propose to introduce a pension tax … pension tax allows those workers near retirement who still do not exercise job search to smooth their consumption during their …

adults work some fraction of the old-age, whatever the retirement age is fixed or chosen by the agents. …

Earlier studies conclude that spouses time their retirement closely together. Here, we exploit early retirement age … legislation to identify the effect of own and spousal retirement on spouses' hours of work. The sample for the analysis includes … over 85000 French couples. We conclude that hours of work fall significantly upon own and partner's retirement, for both …