Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …

ability of older workers to work past the Social Security Early Retirement Age of 62. This issue arises because a possible … reform of Social Security could raise the early retirement age. This change might be made in conjunction with raising the … Normal Retirement Age in order to offset the reduction in annual benefits that workers would receive when retiring at the …

In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … grandparental child care availability in the labor force participation of women with children under 15. We focus on Italy for two … mothers are retirement eligible have a 11 percent higher probability of being in the labor force than those whose mothers are …

deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the evolution of the profitability of pension contributions against the …