women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …

This paper investigates the retirement patterns of married couples in Belgium. To forecast retirement behavior, we use …'s structural design affect both partners' retirement decisions. We simulate the effect of the elimination of the spousal bonus and … find that a small portion of women delay their retirement whereas the rest substitute into alternative social security …

This paper examines the impact of the 34% increase in pensions in Russia at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 … estimate the net effect of income from such a reform. For evaluation, we used a method combining difference-in-difference and … by 6–7.1% for men and by 6–6.4% for women. The heterogeneity of the impact of this reform was also investigated …

This paper investigates how parametric reform in a pay-as-you-go pension system with a tax benefit link affects … retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of … supply. We show how several popular reform scenarios are geared either towards young or old workers, or, indeed, both groups …

PAYG system distributes the yield of raising children, i.e., of human capital investment (which is essentially the pension … occurred at all. This error can be corrected if we take the pension contribution to be the yield on an investment of human …

scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

's unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …

financial incentives for early retirement stem mainly from the Austrian tax system and not from the pension system itself. …