Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old‐age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

This paper studies the labor supply effects of a national delayed retirement policy introduced in 2009 in the … Netherlands. The policy offers a reduction in taxes on labor income over each year in which retirement is delayed after the age of ….5 percentage points in the three years after introduction for cohorts that were eligible before the normal retirement age. I also …

We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …

Using micro data on Japanese households, I provide an overview of the level of financial literacy in Japan, analyze the … determinants of financial literacy and link financial literacy to retirement planning. Overall, the level of financial literacy is … low in Japan. Surprisingly, many Japanese responded that they did not know the answer in at least one question. In …