such changes. Retirement has increasingly become a decision made jointly by a couple rather than individually by one … retirement decision despite age differences between partners. This joint determination of retirement has important implications …

In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of … Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

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. …

countries, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being … status and the age distribution among elderly people. We also demonstrate that working beyond the normal retirement age has a … that the normal retirement age is strictly enforced in urban China and seniors attempting to work face intensive …

information on three major economic outcomes, namely, retirement planning, choices pertaining individuals' labor supply, and …

their resources and their actual personal intentions towards retirement. Research objective is to analyse the relationship … among several factors that affect the behaviour towards retirement, the financial management practices and the financial … influence of financial literacy, financial retirement objectives, optimism on retirement, tolerance to financial risk, and the …

-aged Canadians regarding their retirement income system. We first document important financial literacy differences across gender …, age, education, and labor market status. Using detailed questions on the four main aspects of the retirement income system …, we then show a strong correlation between financial literacy and the knowledge of the retirement system in Canada …