. In response to pension retrenchments implemented immediately, people close to retirement stay in the work force longer …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise …

All told, the effects of the Great Recession on retirement seem relatively modest. These findings are consistent with …This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate a structural model of household retirement and … saving. It applies that model to analyze the effects of the Great Recession on the work and retirement of older couples who …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of … individual's retirement behavior would have been if only one retirement route had existed and in the absence of constraints on …

for an increase in the normal retirement age in the US and the years of service for a full benefit in France …After presenting the Gruber-Wise analysis showing a strong effect on retirement of implicit taxes from pension rules …, it is shown that there is no effect of these implicit taxes on unemployment. This supports the argument for avoiding high …

This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …