Major events in the life of an older individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the …

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …

's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the ratio of behavioral cost to mechanical cost of this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than other …

I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …