advocated policy response is to increase retirement age. Ironically, however, the political support for this policy may actually …) from pension reforms referenda, we show in fact that individuals close to retirement tend to oppose policies that postpone … retirement, whereas young and elderly individuals are more favorable. The current process of population aging, and the associated …

Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere …

of leaving to early retirement. The wage is not affected. …

examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county …

We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime … utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life …

agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age … retirement. However, well designed education programs will keep more workers in highly productive activities at the end of their …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

Most industrialized countries today are facing historical demographic changes, paring increasing retirement with a … this effect by exploiting variation in the pre-determined component of retirement. We find that a 10-point increase in the …