In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement. …

This paper studies the way in which labor market fluctuations affect the transition to early retirement among older … employees in Sweden via the practice of negotiated pensions. The results indicate that downturns (upturns) in aggregated … industry employment increases (decreases) the probability of early retirement. This result is driven by the public sector; in …

This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously … implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. Both policies were targeted at workers aged … year of birth while the social security system is governed by age at retirement, i.e., the day of birth, in analyzing the …

This paper describes early retirement option programs in collective agreements in Sweden during the 1990s. We highlight … findings is that the effects of economic incentives on retirement very well might be over-estimated. …

We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an … retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in doing so, estimates of the individuals' responses to financial … incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. We propose an estimation strategy where the retirement …

in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and …This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …

labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and …Following an era of a development towards earlier retirement, there has been a reversed trend to later exit from the … as much as the age group 50-54 at a particular level of health. We also provide evidence on the development of self …

health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …