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 …

The objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are … study the link between retirement and financial retirement incentives created by the social security system. We find that … the household replacement rate generates slightly higher retirement incentives through an income effect and we find that …

This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an …

standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …

individuals in some countries relying on disability insurance until they are able to enter into full retirement. The sixth stage …, and considers the requirements of disability insurance programs, as well as other pathways to retirement …

. Disability Insurance Incentives and the Retirement Decision: Evidence from the United States - Courtney Coile -- 2. Effect of … Pensions and Disability Benefits on Retirement in the United Kingdom - James Banks, Carl Emmerson, and Gemma Tetlow -- 3 … Retirement Incentives in Belgium - Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, and Sergio Perelman -- 5. Health, Disability Insurance, and …