data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … home production done by the partner. The fall in household income at retirement of one of the partners is largely …We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal …

) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a …

Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a … to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …