for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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

The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (1/2% of the workforce over 65), yet staged … make little allowance for fair pension increases if retirement is deferred. While these laws have begun to change, we find … another part of the answer in employment protection laws. These laws coupled with inflexible collectively agreed wages make …

Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However …, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract as the … present employment subsidies. Moreover, we propose adopting a global approach to unemployment insurance by determining an …

first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …

retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men - especially those in lower-wage jobs - seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …