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 …

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 …

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative … voluntary and involuntary retirement. The effect of involuntary retirement is negative because the adverse effect on …

permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities … for phased retirement. The survey indicates that employers are often willing to permit phased retirement, but primarily as …

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

is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the ?Health and Retirement Nexus? requires an …

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 …

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 …