We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement … unemployment, and shifted to alternative pathways into retirement. The overall use of the retirement system declined by about 1 … reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Raising the retirement age is a common policy response when social security schemes face fiscal pressures. We develop … and estimate a dynamic life cycle model to study optimal retirement and tax policy when individuals face health shocks and … income risk and make endogenous retirement decisions. The model incorporates key features of Social Security, Medicare …

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 …

We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …