spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …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 …

pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … have lower (higher) expected standards of living in retirement, due to the uncertainty regarding intrahousehold resource … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …

We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …