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 program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout … Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour market and from personal motivation to prefer … benefits to wages. We focus on this latter effect and analyse whether workers would have stayed active had they not been …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be …

this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from …

driven exits to retirement, in particular the early exits. …

It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after … retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show that the well-being of the retired continues to … reflect the unemployment that they experienced over their working life. These scarring effects are somewhat smaller for older …

work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the …

the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce … of hours and the wage rate, this paper finds that older self-employed workers are more likely to wish to adjust their …

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …