Among numerous retirement schemes in France, the Social Security general regime" covers all wage earners from the … but with a downward adjustment of benefits. Our computations show that early" retirement adjustment rules give strong … change in the retirement age induced by the 1983 reform …

social security reforms. We further estimated the association of ITAX with an individual's decisions concerning retirement … forms on retirement based on the estimated regression parameters. The results showed that a higher ITAX drove individuals …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of … individual's retirement behavior would have been if only one retirement route had existed and in the absence of constraints on …

retirement age. To tackle these issues, we rely on two different methodological approaches developed in the economic literature … distance between current retirement ages and what we call the "health barrier", i.e. the age at which health prevents people …France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French …

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 …

countries that have high take up rates, inducing early retirement …