Wenn das Antrittsalter für normale Alterspensionen für Frauen schrittweise nicht erst bis 2024, sondern schon bis 2019 auf 65 Jahre angehoben wird, wächst das Arbeitskräfteangebot in der Altersgruppe der 60- bis 64-jährigen Frauen, und das tatsächliche Pensionsantrittsalter steigt. Die...

To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...

We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...