It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while … not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from … the labour market. However, the regulations have become more restrictive in the last decade and early retirement usually …

This paper examines the causal effect of retirement on health and healthcare utilization using two identification … strategies on Danish full population data. First, I use a reform of the statutory retirement age in an IV design. Second, I use a … large discontinuity in retirement take-up at the earliest age of retirement (60) in a regression discontinuity design. The …

Aging populations strain pension systems, prompting policymakers to introduce partial retirement schemes to incentivize … workers to retire later. I study the impact of introducing partial retirement within collective bargaining agreements in … Sweden's manufacturing sector in 2013. Merging collective bargaining data with administrative records, I employ a difference …

Raising the retirement age is a common policy response when social security schemes face fiscal pressures. We develop … and estimate a dynamic life cycle model to study optimal retirement and tax policy when individuals face health shocks and … income risk and make endogenous retirement decisions. The model incorporates key features of Social Security, Medicare …

This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … Spanish pension reform. This reform exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …