different retirement incentives for men and women, with little flexibility in the retirement decision for men and substantially …We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply …

spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of …

assume responsibility for a greater share of their future retirement saving and health and long-term care costs. Financial … financial literacy is an important determinant of financial protection in the older pre-retirement population in Ireland. Using … with higher total household wealth, lower financial stress and higher expected retirement income. We find little evidence …

better retirement planning. However, relatively little is known about the decision making process for retirement savings … preparation for retirement. This paper investigates the relationship between the financial literacy of members of pre-retirement …

scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the retirement phase of the lifecycle. It discusses … postpone retirement marginally toward the end of the working life. The chapter examines additional criteria (fairness …

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 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 …