retirement and exits through disability insurance. Lower access-age to own pension funds caused a small increase in employment …We evaluate a comprehensive reform of Norwegian early retirement institutions in 2011 through the lens of a … all) workers. We find that improved work incentives caused employment to rise considerably, at the expense of both early …

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 …

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

Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … 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 …

pension rights. We find that this exogenous shock to pension rights postpones expected retirement and increases participation …

retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more than … half of women appear to be making standard retirement plans. At the same time, more than one in five individuals seem to … have delayed their retirement planning and approximately one in ten either do not know when they expect to retire or expect …

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 …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue … that extended UI generates program complementarity (increased take-up of UI followed by DI and/or regular retirement …