I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of … Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …

retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more than … half of women appear to be making standard retirement plans. At the same time, more than one in five individuals seem to … have delayed their retirement planning and approximately one in ten either do not know when they expect to retire or expect …

countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …

future employment. Exploiting across cohort variation in expected pension wealth induced by a 3-year lift in early retirement … age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …

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 … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …