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

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 …

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 …

of retirement among women aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The …/or part-time - between career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that older women - especially those … in lower-wage jobs - often seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge jobs are not in the …

health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …

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 …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …

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

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 …