retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

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

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

We use nationally representative panel data from Australia to consider the impact of retirement on individual locus of … causality via cohort-specific eligibility age for the Australian Age Pension. We show that retirement leads to increased … effects of retirement on health and subjective well-being, respectively. The impact of retirement on control beliefs varies …

address this question in the context of a recent German pension reform which raised the statutory retirement age by two years … of work ability at retirement and fundamental opposition. Our results show that expected work ability declines … appears to strongly affect responses from East German households. -- retirement ; health ; work ability ; survey experiment …

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found … relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the …-section data for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …

Germany recent reforms that aim at raising retirement age and cutting benefit levels should be complemented by increases in … ; tax-benefit linkage ; endogenous retirement ; population ageing …

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found … relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the … for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …

will boost retirement savings without interfering with individuals’ freedom of choice. …