does influence the wife’s retirement decision, but the health status of the husband does not. The presence of dependents in …This article reviews the economic literature on the work and retirement decisions of older women. Economic studies … retirement decisions, but that they do not respond to unearned income and wealth (for example, the value of lifetime Social …

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. …

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction … their retirement probability increases in a sizable way. We also find that the procedure to impute seniority used in …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

different retirement incentives for men and women, with little flexibility in the retirement decision for men and substantially …We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply …