We study the influence of family members, neighbors and coworkers on retirement behavior. To estimate causal retirement …' retirement ages, and we use administrative data on the full Dutch population. We find large spillovers in couples, primarily due … to women reacting to their husband's retirement choices. Consistent with homophily in social interactions, the influence …

Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …

retirement age (FRA) of individuals with a long contribution history by up to two years and framed the new FRA as reference age … for retirement. Using administrative data from public pension insurance accounts, we first document a substantial bunching …

behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …

address this question in the context of a recent German pension reform which raised the statutory retirement age by two years … of work ability at retirement and fundamental opposition. Our results show that expected work ability declines … appears to strongly affect responses from East German households. -- retirement ; health ; work ability ; survey experiment …

during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question about what this standard should be … Netherlands. Key findings include the following. Adequate levels of retirement spending exceed 80 percent of working life spending … ; retirement saving ; cross-country survey studies …