Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark

Esteban Garc�a-Miralles and Jonathan Leganza
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Esteban Garc�a-Miralles: CEBI, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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No 21-01, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Abstract: We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension eligibility age. Next, we explore underlying mechanisms. We find age differences within couples to be a fundamental determinant of joint retirement, which is driven by older spouses working longer. Accounting for these age differences reveals a strong gender gap, which prevails after controlling for relative earnings. Finally, in a complementary analysis we show that a reform increasing eligibility ages induces similar spillovers to spouses.

Keywords: joint retirement; pension eligibility age; couples labor supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 H55 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2021-01-29
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-cwa, nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-pbe
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Journal Article: Joint retirement of couples: Evidence from discontinuities in Denmark (2024)
Working Paper: Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark (2021)
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