over the reform period. Finally, we decompose the changes over time in elders' labor force participation decisions and find …

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

people who would have continued to work fulltime until ordinary retirement age instead work part-time. …Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the … effect on the total number of hours worked of the subsidized part-time pension system is analysed. The analysis indicates …

a strong trend towards later retirement as a result of social and economic pressures, without any policy action. The … results will be largely positive and should therefore be supported by policy whenever possible. Delaying work-retirement … provide consistency in signals about retirement ages. …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …