labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those … benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are likely to harm these workers more than the average worker, the converse is true …

permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … with his or her employer while gradually reducing work hours and effort. Although older workers often express an interest … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities …

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 …

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 …

permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … with his or her employer while gradually reducing work hours and effort. Although older workers often express an interest … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities …

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not … only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker’s … opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these data to first establish that employers are selective when offering …