The objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are … study the link between retirement and financial retirement incentives created by the social security system. We find that … the household replacement rate generates slightly higher retirement incentives through an income effect and we find that …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform increased the labor supply for the …

data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high …

Many nations incentivize retirement saving by letting workers defer taxes on pension contributions, imposing them when … taxing pension contributions instead of withdrawals leads to delayed retirement, somewhat lower lifetime tax payments, and …

We use nationally representative panel data from Australia to consider the impact of retirement on individual locus of … causality via cohort-specific eligibility age for the Australian Age Pension. We show that retirement leads to increased … effects of retirement on health and subjective well-being, respectively. The impact of retirement on control beliefs varies …

Germany recent reforms that aim at raising retirement age and cutting benefit levels should be complemented by increases in … ; tax-benefit linkage ; endogenous retirement ; population ageing …

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 …

duration until retirement entry and (ii) on the duration until exit from gainful employment. I estimate discrete time duration … identified. The permanent reduction of retirement benefit amounts causes a postponement of retirement entry by about fifteen … months and a delay of employment exit by about nine months on average. -- retirement insurance ; labor force participation …