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 …

The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore … retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990 … explicitly takes into account the different take‐up rates of the various early retirement exit paths across time and ages. The …

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 …

Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …

-calculation window, combined with the discrete change in the probability of retirement at the minimum retirement age. We find that … retirement age, reaching a 3% increase on average. This is not the case for employees of large firms, where earnings …

We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase … based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement program, which entailed that adjacent birth cohorts were exposed to … completely different work incentives from age 62. The reform removed a strict retirement earnings test such that pension wealth …

hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …