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 …

increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist in a pension bonus, reductions in employers …' social security contributions and measures discouraging early retirement while encouraging working time reductions at the end … of the career. We aim at evaluating the overall effectiveness of the ISP in rising the employment rate of older workers …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …

than they would have had otherwise. We argue that the rise in retirement age meant a negative shock to the supply of …-bearing years increases by about five percent the number of children. We show that the fertility effects of delayed retirement are …

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU … the approach of firms and workers to early retirement. Policy changes influence actors' behavior in the medium run and …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …

percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 …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 …