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

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 …

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 …

receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not …’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these data to first establish that employers are selective when offering … opportunities for phased retirement. It then examines what worker and job characteristics are particularly important in the …

Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …