Measures of retirement that take a cohort perspective are appealing since retirement patterns may change, and it would … be useful to have consistent measures that would make it possible to compare retirement patterns over time and between … measures of retirement and transition from work to retirement based on the two data sets are quite similar. -- Measures of …

In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems … during the last two decades, by discouraging early retirement and increasing incentives to work for older workers. Senior … reaction to retirement incentives set by governments. This paper highlights how disutility to work can influence the …

consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home … production of both partners in a couple. Our identification strategy exploits the earliest age retirement laws in France …, enabling a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach. We find that own retirement significantly increases own hours of home …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …

This paper estimates a structured life cycle model of family retirement decision using a unique historical dataset back … simulated from Living in Ireland survey. Our model takes the advantages of the dataset and models retirement decisions in terms … incorporate complimentary leisure, which allows us to analyse the interactions of spouses' retirement timing. This methodology …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labour force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 … empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 …

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points … savings as they either continue to retire early via disability pensions or bridge the gap to regular retirement by drawing …