The paper studies the labor market participation of older workers in Belgium over the last 3 decades. It outlines the … changes to the institutional framework of relevance for labor market participation and employment. Drawing on data from the …

The paper studies the labor market participation of older workers in Belgium over the last 3 decades. It outlines the … changes to the institutional framework of relevance for labor market participation and employment. Drawing on data from the …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement … age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …

relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using …. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our …

-standard employment into account, by relating the empirical model more explicitly to optional value model theory on retirement decisions …-time employment is negatively related to labor market withdrawal of older men. This relationship is less strong among women …. Additionally, we find that part-time employment at older ages does not decrease the average actual hours worked. Furthermore, the …