Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the …

Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the …

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 …

retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …

employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …

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 …

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 …

of the marginal actuarially fair incentives in case of postponed retirement. Social Security then faces a tradeoff … between giving enough incentives to make individuals actually delay retirement and giving little increase in pensions in order …. Furthermore, we analyze the interactions between wealth and retirement behavior. …