This paper examines the empirical link between retirement and the supply of volunteer labor, using panel data from the … the Australian Age Pension which has significantly changed the retirement incentives of older people. We find positive and … significant effects of retirement status on the voluntary work provision of older men and women. Longer time spent in retirement …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early … retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may …

retirement age (FRA) of individuals with a long contribution history by up to two years and framed the new FRA as reference age … for retirement. Using administrative data from public pension insurance accounts, we first document a substantial bunching …

In several countries where pensions are reformed and the retirement age is increased, the issue came up to make an … retirement scheme for such occupations through higher taxes. A representative sample of Dutch adults answered several questions … the evaluations of the demanding nature of the jobs as well as their reasonable retirement age or willingness to …

We study the effects of the recent increase in the statutory retirement age (SRA) in the Netherlands, using RDD and … retirement reform. The employment effect of the SRA reform is much larger for cohorts receiving less generous early retirement … benefits. Indeed, the level of employment before the SRA, together with the retirement hazard at the SRA, is key to …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 … 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 …

, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy … elderly people. We also show that working beyond the normal retirement age has a much stronger negative association with … earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement … reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use … early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA) increased the age of early retirement stepwise from 60 to 63. We …

activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment … unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing …