as a part of this study, the paper examines labor market consequences of this process, focusing on retirement pathways … old age: (i) previous employment is the most important predictor of the retirement pathway; (ii) older workers fall into … they are forced to do so by mandatory retirement regulations, and casual workers and the self-employed, who are forced to …

for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we … find that older women's retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest. …

Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we … estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to … retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims …

. -- Older workers ; labor market institutions ; employment ; employment protection ; welfare state ; pensions ; retirement …