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

state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily … from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a structural … retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of …

possible need to stay at work until the standard retirement age. In economic theory, retirement is described as an individual … decision in which the opportunity costs of leisure time are weighed against the anticipated retirement income. How the … to which couples coordinate their retirement plans and take a joint decision. Our analysis shows that joint retirement …

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 …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

that financial incentives for early retirement stem mainly from the Austrian tax system and not from the pension system …

This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

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