family income before retirement across partners, as well as the survival likelihood of the partner and the number of years …

to offer individual retirement accounts, similar to defined contribution plans. How likely to participate are workers who …

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-benefit link and life expectancy-indexed retirement age. All of this calls for mechanisms that neutralize or at least …

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 behaviours and elderly poverty issues have been the subject of much attention and discussion in recent years … European countries, but is also struggling with increasing fiscal pressures. This paper analyses the retirement pattern and the … associated with the replacement rates and retirement behaviours, and explores the heterogeneities of replacement rates among …

The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore … retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990 … explicitly takes into account the different take‐up rates of the various early retirement exit paths across time and ages. The …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …