This paper investigates the retirement patterns of married couples in Belgium. To forecast retirement behavior, we use …'s structural design affect both partners' retirement decisions. We simulate the effect of the elimination of the spousal bonus and … find that a small portion of women delay their retirement whereas the rest substitute into alternative social security …

Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

Retirement Age (FRA). Sharp discontinuities generated by the reform reveal that raising the FRA while imposing small early … claiming penalties significantly delays pension claiming and retirement, but imposing large penalties and holding the FRA fixed …

This paper examines the empirical link between retirement and the supply of volunteer labor, using panel data from the … the Australian Age Pension which has significantly changed the retirement incentives of older people. We find positive and … significant effects of retirement status on the voluntary work provision of older men and women. Longer time spent in retirement …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 … implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early … retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may …

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 …

, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy … elderly people. We also show that working beyond the normal retirement age has a much stronger negative association with … earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement … reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use … early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA) increased the age of early retirement stepwise from 60 to 63. We …