Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI programs. The …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … extending the methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI …

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. …

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 …

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