unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …

with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire one year later on average. Total life …-time labour supply, however, decreases with 3.4 months because the positive effect of delayed retirement on labour supply is … cancelled out by the reduction in working hours before full retirement. The impact of gradual retirement schemes is, however …

-calculation window, combined with the discrete change in the probability of retirement at the minimum retirement age. We find that … retirement age, reaching a 3% increase on average. This is not the case for employees of large firms, where earnings …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … vary in the same way, i.e. improve unexpectedly after retirement for men. These findings suggest that, at least in the case …

's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy … anti-poverty programs such as extending unemployment benefits and progressive taxation. I find that the phasing out of this …

The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …

pension rights. We find that this exogenous shock to pension rights postpones expected retirement and increases participation …

Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

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