measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of …

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …”. We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early … retirement incentive. The reduction of incentives mainly stems from the introduction of actuarial deductions for early retirement …

affect retirement, whether there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment, and whether older individuals are … Retirement Around the World. This project, which compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries, was launched in the mid … project document that social security program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly …

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … the OV model proposed by Stock and Wise (1990a, 1990b), we found that the probability of retirement has a negative and … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in … from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a … structural" retirement model suggest that the long run effects of changes in pension plans and social security" account for about …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of …

We examine the role of self-employment in retirement transitions using a panel of administrative tax data. We find that … the hazard of self-employment increases at popular retirement ages associated with Social Security eligibility …, particularly for those with greater retirement wealth. Late-career transitions to self-employment are associated with a larger drop …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …

retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment … of employment by 1.8 years. As the policy evolved to include an abrupt retirement option, the worklife gain for men fell … and retirement after ATZ. We find the policy induced growth in part-time work for men and extended men's expected duration …