We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

observed trend towards early retirement. In a world of laissez-faire or of first-best efficiency, there would be no such … variables are not observable, the optimal policy does imply a distortion of the retirement decision. Consequently, the … inducement of early retirement may be part of the optimal tax-transfer policy. We consider a model in which individuals differ in …

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

The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly … systems - with a focus on retirement. The paper argues that such effects are non-negligible and are likely to have major … policy consequences. -- pensions ; retirement ; international migration ; social security coordination …

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

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …