retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before … normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout … Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour market and from personal motivation to prefer … benefits to wages. We focus on this latter effect and analyse whether workers would have stayed active had they not been …

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible …

risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a … early due to exceptional rules is not affected. -- Labour supply ; retirement behaviour ; old age unemployment ; duration …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be …

retirement by baby boomers will result in higher unemployment among the young, a claim which has been garnering increased … in the form of reduced unemployment, increased employment, and a higher wage. The patterns are consistent for both men … variables also produce no consistent evidence that changes in the employment rates of older workers adversely affect the …