This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and … 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 …

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 …

, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …

the attractiveness of his contracts as an important feature for equilibrium existence, thereby offering a new perspective …

We present robust evidence on the presence of adverse selection in hospitalization insurance for low-income households …. Bundling insurance policies at the household or higher levels almost eliminates adverse selection, thus mitigating its welfare … consequences and creating the possibility for sustainable insurance supply …

consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer promotion wage contracts to workers of different abilities, which is … contracts and hire all types of workers in equilibrium, whereas high-wage firms offer pooling contracts, promoting high …