In this paper we study retirement decisions and more specifically, the influence of a partner’s labour market status on … this decision. We use information from three waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE … retirement rather than the state of being retired and also to distinguish between different degrees of labour market attachment …

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found … relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the … for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …