disabled, that they will receive a low pension. To keep their health they should work less. To improve their disability pension …. Further, more generous pension systems increase pre-disablement income even more. …

Norway in 1992-2003. Special attention is given to early retirement pensiion and disability pension as two major exit routes … model is used to investigate the degree of potential substitution of the early retirement and retirement through the … routes from the labour force. Performed policy simulation of the complete elimination of the early retirement program …

worker. I show that if the worker, too, knows the true quality of the firm, then certain long term wage agreements can … tied to firm performance, because only a worker in a good quality firm would be willing to defer compensation to an … credibly signal firm quality. Such wage agreements have a low initial wage and are equity-like in the sense that future pay is …

disability pensioners. Further, I show that the ratio of disability pension to labor income vary with different definitions of …There are currently about 300,000 individuals receiving disability pension in Norway. A key question regarding the … evolvement of the number of disabled workers is if the growth is related to the growth in the generosity of the pension system …

Variation in non-pension wealth accumulation with the level of expected pensions is investigated with a register based … benefits are related to earnings, the regressive structure of the public pension and incomplete coverage of occupational … with detailed calculations of public and occupational pension entitlements, allowing construction of full life time income …

In 1989, an early retirement program (AFP) was introduced in Norway, with an eligibility age gradually decreasing from …

Early retirement decisions derived from a structural model with economic incentives and firm workforce changes, are … early retirement, the impact on early retirement of a reduction in the firm workforce is stronger relative to economic … workforce implies a higher retirement probability.The eligibility age in the early retirement programme has gradually been …

retirement age – this remains true when we account for program substitution, for example into the disability pension. Using …This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering … the full population of Norway. We make use of a series of retirement policy changes in Norway, which reduced the …