This paper estimates a structured life cycle model of family retirement decision using a unique historical dataset back … simulated from Living in Ireland survey. Our model takes the advantages of the dataset and models retirement decisions in terms … incorporate complimentary leisure, which allows us to analyse the interactions of spouses' retirement timing. This methodology …

Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline …. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities …

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 …

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social …