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 …

Intro -- Preface -- 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare -- 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition … Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a 'Work Society' -- 6 Japan: Shukko, Teinen and Re-Employment -- 7 …