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

This paper studies the design of retirement and disability policies. It illustrates the often observed exit from the … social welfare. Benefits depend on retirement age and on the (reported) health status. We determine first- and second …-best optimal benefit levels and retirement ages and focus on the distortions which may be induced in the individuals’ retirement …

The present Paper studies the retirement incentives for elderly people in Belgium. We model the incentive structure … built into the various public early retirement and retirement systems. First, we compute indicators of benefit entitlement … as of the implicit tax rates the elderly workers face in case of delayed retirement. We find strong evidence of social …

heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

This paper evaluates the relative impact of range of health, economic and structural factors on the employment … of workforce in 34 industrial sectors drawn from the decennial censuses from 1951 to 1981. It finds that early retirement … is influenced primarily by economic factors, although health becomes important in 1981. By showing that retirement and …

elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus allowing us to measure the expected social security wealth and to assess to …

the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based …

lengthen retirement age and/or cut pension benefits. After controlling for individual features of the respondent, we find that …