We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives – particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …

The paper traces labor market reforms over the last four decades. It provides estimates of retirement incentives for a … performance in Belgium. The results show that the numerous retirement and social security program reforms have had a marked impact …

first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …

We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clearcut, but go in the same direction …

Household debt among older Americans approaching retirement has increased dramatically over the past couple of decades … household survey data to examine how late life debt affects retirement decisions, we find that more indebted older adults are …

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clear-cut, but go in the same direction …