How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … potential influence of health on employment choices, we show that retirement improves physical and social health. The more …

in country where labor supply is scarce. However, in a country like Uganda where rural poor are often underemployed and …

2003er Rentenreform ist das erhoffte Sinken der Arbeitslosigkeit, das eine Steigerung der Beschäftigungsquote der Älteren …. Gibt es tatsächlich einen französischen Weg zur Rentenreform ? Nach einem Überblick des gesetzlichen … Alterssicherungssystems in Frankreich, der es uns erlaubt den Inhalt der Rentenreform von 1993 vorzustellen, analysieren wir, in einem zweiten …

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 …

The economic litterature on retirement argues that individuals in a couple tend to retire at a choice time because of … upon retiring. Exploiting the law on early retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify … the causal effect of retirement on hours of leisure, separate and together, of the man and woman in a couple. We use a …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …