reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one's previous employment …

are time consuming activities that can be produced within the household or bought at the market and are, thus, connected … through the intertemporal budget constraint of the household that accounts for time and money. This paper models that link and …

are time consuming activities that can be produced within the household or bought at the market and are, thus, connected … through the intertemporal budget constraint of the household that accounts for time and money. This paper models that link and …

. Differences for older male and female workers over time, may be explained by changes in labor and retirement policies. …

retirement, we estimate child skill production functions and embed them into an estimated dynastic model in which altruistic … mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and … education subsidies can reduce inequality, due to an estimated dynamic complementarity between time investments and education …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …

Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the …

The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (1/2% of the workforce over 65), yet staged … make little allowance for fair pension increases if retirement is deferred. While these laws have begun to change, we find …