This paper investigates the retirement patterns of married couples in Belgium. To forecast retirement behavior, we use …'s structural design affect both partners' retirement decisions. We simulate the effect of the elimination of the spousal bonus and … find that a small portion of women delay their retirement whereas the rest substitute into alternative social security …

containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The … effect towards later retirement through lower replacement levels, it also implied a lower price on leaving the labor market … measured by Social Security Wealth, defined at each hypothetical retirement age, and a variable measuring the implicit tax …