objective of this paper is to examine how non-wage costs affect voluntary early retirement. To this end we use a large … variation in collective fee costs across companies to identify employer incentives to encourage early retirement. The results … costs increases retirement by 6 percent. Further, given the wage sum and workforce structure, large firms spend more on non …

This paper uses unique micro data from a Swedish occupational pension plan to study the determinants of annuitization … characteristics. The pension can either be withdrawn as a life annuity or during a fixed number of years with a minimum of five years …

Knowledge about how elderly workers react to changes in pension benefits is important in guiding the design of social …-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s, older workers had the option of partial retirement with an income replacement … women chose part-time retirement after the reduction in benefit levels in 1981. There was an approximate 4 percentage point …

decision and the accesses to early retirement pension offers are estimated in a simultaneous equation system, yielding unbiased … early retirement pension offers were absent. …We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an …

are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits …The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives … than the former system. I study whether the reform has led to delayed retirement by examining the retirement patterns of …