We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual … data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis … the effect. Results suggest that the effect of the changes in early retirement age is substantial, amounting to 5 …

Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the …

We analyse the effects of pension reforms on the planned retirement age of women by exploiting within country variation … in pension wealth across cohorts of workers in Italy after the Amato and Dini reforms of the early 1990s, which … pension regime on retirement decisions is affected by the presence of gaps in careers of women. Binding constraints related to …

Pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age increase the pool of senior individuals aged 50+ who are not eligible … estimate the effects of local changes in the supply of workers aged between 50 and minimum retirement age on youth, prime age …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have children under 15. We focus on Italy for two reasons … retirement eligible have a 13 percent higher probability of being employed than those whose mothers are ineligible. The pension …

In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … grandparental child care availability in the labor force participation of women with children under 15. We focus on Italy for two … mothers are retirement eligible have a 11 percent higher probability of being in the labor force than those whose mothers are …

future employment. Exploiting across cohort variation in expected pension wealth induced by a 3-year lift in early retirement …