increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …

normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than … of the bridge options. Therefore mainly employers with high employment adaption costs induced employees to use a bridge …

(unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as … worsened working conditions, or increased future uncertainty as regards income and employment. Using German panel data, we … identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …

employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be …‐discontinuity approach to estimate the labor market reactions. Surprisingly, we find the same relative employment increase of about 25% for …

implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …