concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … first best that implies a lower retirement age for females can be implemented by a gender-neutral system. Otherwise, gender …-spans. We derive the optimal direction of redistribution and show how it is affected by a gender neutrality rule. With singles …

turns out to decrease ex-ante individual welfare, unless restrictions are assumed on retirement behavior. Overall, risk …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap. …

-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …

contributions into retirement accounts, that too, in an age-independent manner. This is puzzling because such funded pension schemes … effectively mandate the young, who wish to borrow, to save for retirement. Further, if agents are present-biased, they disagree … with the intent of such schemes and attempt to undo them by reducing their own saving or even borrowing against retirement …

hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the … for the present century, where birth and mortality rates in most western countries are steeply declining. …

Raising the retirement age is a common policy response when social security schemes face fiscal pressures. We develop … and estimate a dynamic life cycle model to study optimal retirement and tax policy when individuals face health shocks and … income risk and make endogenous retirement decisions. The model incorporates key features of Social Security, Medicare …