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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

security systems on retirement behavior. In addition to measures of financial incentives induced by the social security systems … early retirement schemes. We find that financial incentives do not have a lot of explanatory power for the probability to … retire. In contrast, being eligible for early retirement substantially increases the chances for an individual to exit the …

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 …