The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU … the approach of firms and workers to early retirement. Policy changes influence actors’ behavior in the medium run and …

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 …

We study effects of financial incentives on the retirement age using stated preference data. Dutch survey respondents … were given hypothetical retirement scenarios describing age(s) of (partial and full) retirement and replacement rate(s). A … the income and substitution effects of pensions as a function of the retirement age are substantial and larger than …

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … birth cohorts of workers who are eligible to a transitional early retirement scheme. The empirical results show that low … will experience a stronger incentive to continue working in an early retirement scheme with a low implicit tax rate. …

access to retirement accounts. …