In this paper, the impact of the West German pension system on the retirement decisions of elderly citizens is analyzed within the framework of a discrete-time hazard rate model deduced from a micro-economic decision rule. The model is estimated using a balanced panel of elderly West German...

In this paper, I describe a structural model of retirement behaviour, in which the multiplicityof alternative retirement ages, the possibility of unobserved heterogeneity and the "absorbing state" property of the retirement decision are accounted for. As it is based on a relatively simple...