In 1996, Germany introduced the Altersteilzeit (ATZ) law, which encouraged longer working lives through partial … retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment … and retirement after ATZ. We find the policy induced growth in part-time work for men and extended men's expected duration …

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 … empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 …

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 … significantly affected by the distance from retirement, in addition to age and other relevant variables. We then extend McCall …

The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (½% of the workforce over 65), yet staged in … little allowance for fair pension increases if retirement is deferred. While these laws have begun to change, we find another …

future employment. Exploiting across cohort variation in expected pension wealth induced by a 3-year lift in early retirement … age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …

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

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …

retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform extending long-term care (LTC) benefits (in the form of subsidies and … supports) in Spain after 2007 on caregiving spouse's early retirement intention. We subsequently examine the effect of … retirement reform among private sector workers in 2013. We document evidence of a 10pp reduction in the early retirement …

combine high-quality survey and administrative data. Our results suggest that partial or gradual retirement options offered by …