Using rich Finnish population level registers, we examine the impact of fusing a flexible early retirement pathway with a more stringent pathway, without changing eligibility conditions, so-called "relabelling", on individual application behaviour. Our findings show that among affected cohorts...

Using the largest household panel survey Understanding Society, this paper investigates low income dynamics among pensioner households in the UK controlling for biases due to initial conditions and non-random survey attrition. Estimation results indicate the presence of a correlation between...