-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …

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 …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 …

deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the evolution of the profitability of pension contributions against the …

This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying … mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural … approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting mechanisms that drive the employment effects of partial retirement: 1 …

retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between … retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is devoted to analyzing the long-run financial implications of such a reform …. We show that with actuarial adjustments the long-run contribution rate is an increasing function of the retirement age …

This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for … their retirement decision. We find significant positive effects on informal care provided by women retiring from employment …

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in … particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. To measure differences in labor market reactions of … increased the early retirement age for women from 60 to 63 years. Based on a large administrative dataset, we use a regression …

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found … relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the …-section data for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …