Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand …-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement … based on international microdata covering 19 industrialized countries. The results indicate that generous early retirement …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers’ full-time … employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full-time …

examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county …

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 …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

cycle labor supply, retirement timing, and savings. I develop a structural model in continuous time where the life-cycle of … a representative agent is divided into three distinct phases: pre-treatment, post-treatment, and retirement. Solutions … for consumption/savings, labor supply/leisure, and retirement timing are then obtained by solving the model as a salvage …

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time …, but only for childless couples. Work timing also influences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the …