concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … singles only this implies distortions of retirement decision and restricts redistribution across genders. With couples, a … first best that implies a lower retirement age for females can be implemented by a gender-neutral system. Otherwise, gender …

increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for … people to retire prematurely. To this end, countries have adopted alternative retirement age strategies, but our analyses …. In addition, our analyses demonstrate that countries risk falling short of their goals given their use of projection …

This paper develops a general equilibrium life-cycle model with endogenous retirement and disability risk, in order to … analysis focus on the increase in the normal retirement age (NRA) from age 65 to 67 (Reform 2007) and the recent increase in … early retirement benefits in the future …

We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full …-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension … joint retirement, which is driven by older spouses working longer. Accounting for these age differences reveals a strong …

hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …