to women reacting to their husband's retirement choices. Consistent with homophily in social interactions, the influence …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 …

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 …

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 … methods that underestimate life expectancy. This paper discusses how to implement automatic indexation of the retirement age …

longer and birth rates have declined. Postponing the full retirement age (FRA), when retirees are entitled to full pension …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

advocated policy response is to increase retirement age. Ironically, however, the political support for this policy may actually …) from pension reforms referenda, we show in fact that individuals close to retirement tend to oppose policies that postpone … retirement, whereas young and elderly individuals are more favorable. The current process of population aging, and the associated …

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