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 …

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those … benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are likely to harm these workers more than the average worker, the converse is true …

permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … with his or her employer while gradually reducing work hours and effort. Although older workers often express an interest … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities …

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not … only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker’s … opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these data to first establish that employers are selective when offering …

Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time …

people who would have continued to work fulltime until ordinary retirement age instead work part-time. …

The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …

significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …