Retirement is not only an individual decision, it is a decision taken within a family system.
The extent to which estimates of retirement predictors are biased by the clustering of older …

This article explores the influence of the spouse or partner on individual retirement
decisions. Event history analysis is used to study the effects of age, education, health …

In this paper we use data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to
describe and analyse the dynamics of joint labour force behaviour of older couples for the …

In this project we study joint retirement of couples in Europe. We characterize various
empirical regularities and use a model for simultaneous duration variables developed in …

This study investigates old European couples' retirement choices in order to bridge the gap
between the European and the American literature. The typical European family …

This article analyses retirement decisions from a household perspective, treating the
retirement timing of spouses as potentially interdependent choices. To identify the …

This article examines the retirement timing of unmarried and married elderly men in (West)
Germany. Data are drawn from the German Socio Economic Panel Study. An event history …

Our article investigates the role of relative income distributions within couples for individuals'
retirement risks. It addresses the following questions: How does the share someone …

We specify and estimate retirement models for singles and married couples and estimate
these on data from the Dutch Socio‐Economic Panel. We perform some simulations and find …

The main purpose of this article is to assess to the extent to which divergent retirement
policies in Austria and the United States influence couples' retirement timing decisions. The …