usefulness of policies such as gradual retirement and part-time work in increasing older workers’ employment. …

This paper uses panel data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to study the effect of …

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 … rates for old workers aged 55-59. Based on the French Labor Force Survey, we show that the likelihood of employment is …