This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 … empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 …

Social insurance for the elderly is judged responsible for the widely observed trend towards early retirement. In a … distortion on the retirement decision. The main point we make is that while there is no doubt that retirement systems induce an …

retirement schemes into less generous and actuarially fair capital funded schemes. The starting dates of the transitional … the policy reform on early retirement behaviour. We use a large administrative dataset, the Dutch Income Panel 1989 …-2000, to estimate hazard rate models for early retirement. We conclude that the policy reform induced workers to postpone early …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … any adverse effect early retirement onmortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher incidence of …

Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the …

The present Paper studies the retirement incentives for elderly people in Belgium. We model the incentive structure … built into the various public early retirement and retirement systems. First, we compute indicators of benefit entitlement … as of the implicit tax rates the elderly workers face in case of delayed retirement. We find strong evidence of social …

The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets … studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in … different EC countries are forced to synchronize minimum retirement ages, which are lower now for females than males in a number …