for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities … for phased retirement. The survey indicates that employers are often willing to permit phased retirement, but primarily as …

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not …’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these data to first establish that employers are selective when offering … opportunities for phased retirement. It then examines what worker and job characteristics are particularly important in the …

retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a "purged" health measure similar to …

This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The …