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 …

' social security contributions and measures discouraging early retirement while encouraging working time reductions at the end …

, but evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. This paper examines the effects of a permanent wage cost subsidy in Belgium … of leaving to early retirement. The wage is not affected …

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 …

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 … receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …

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 …

Earlier studies conclude that spouses' retirement strategies are not independent from each other and that policies … retirement age legislation in France as well as a retirement policy change to identify the effect of own and spousal retirement … significant jumps in the own retirement probability at the legal early retirement age for both men and women in a couple. We also …

participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where … has been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. We find significant impact on work after retirement from … education, gender, home ownership, aggregate unemployment at the time of retirement, age and education. Being married has a …

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …