the retirement income is deemed sufficient and the pension plan avails withdrawal of benefits. We provide evidence using … findings suggest that affordability is a key determinant in the retirement decisions. The higher the accumulated pension …

the retirement income is deemed sufficient and the pension plan avails withdrawal of benefits. We provide evidence using … findings suggest that affordability is a key determinant in the retirement decisions. The higher the accumulated pension …

decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one’s standard of … living during retirement. This article examines the savings behavior for retirement on an individual level in Germany. As a … out to be less likely to save additionally privately for retirement. In a second step the chosen gross saving rates are …

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 …

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 …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … countries and was reformed in 2008 to alleviate old- age poverty and reduce gender pension gaps. The paper estimates the dynamic … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …

's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy … anti-poverty programs such as extending unemployment benefits and progressive taxation. I find that the phasing out of this …