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 …

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. …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …

of retirement among women aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The …/or part-time – between career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that older women – especially those … in lower-wage jobs – often seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge jobs are not in the …

retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men – especially those in lower-wage jobs – seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …

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 …