Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

could be achieved if people retire from the work force later in life. Partial retirement, the option to work part-time while … drawing a pension before reaching the normal retirement age, could create the necessary conditions for reaching this goal. The … impact of partial retirement on employment will be simulated below. The results show that unrestricted access to partial …