-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …

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 …

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 negative consequences of being unable to reach their statutory retirement age in employment. …Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in … employment. An important at-risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be …

their retirement decision. We find significant positive effects on informal care provided by women retiring from employment …This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance … the early retirement option, the simulations indicate that a means test mitigates the moral hazard problem substantially. …

model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks …

model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks …