to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career …. In this paper, we document the responses of self-employed and employed workers to these incentives, using social security …-calculation window, combined with the discrete change in the probability of retirement at the minimum retirement age. We find that …

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 … of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version …

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 …

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

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

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 …

Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous … of the tax and transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the effects of … a tax reform targeted at low income individuals on employment behavior and retirement decisions …

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …

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