In 1996, Germany introduced the Altersteilzeit (ATZ) law, which encouraged longer working lives through partial … retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment … and retirement after ATZ. We find the policy induced growth in part-time work for men and extended men's expected duration …

. Conventional analyses of wage profiles pool all waqe observations without distin-guishing among individuals according to retirement …

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 … affect retirement, whether there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment, and whether older individuals are …

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 …

We study the influence of job characteristics on prospective retirement as measured by the probability of working past … from the Health and Retirement Survey, we find that physical and mental job requirements have a rather small influence on … prospective retirement, whereas measures of job flexibility and financial aspects of the job are important determinants …

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 present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …

individual's retirement behavior would have been if only one retirement route had existed and in the absence of constraints on … work capabilities. We show that average years of work between 55 and 64 are nearly 14% greater when regular retirement …We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …

Germans retire early. On the one hand, early retirement is very costly and amplifies the burden which the German public … pension system has to carry due to population aging. On the other hand, however, early retirement is also seen as a much …This paper investigates the relation between early retirement and well-being using the GSOEP panel data. The general …

The financing problems beleaguering the public pension system have again shifted the spotlight onto the retirement age …. This paper examines the impact of various reform options on the actual retirement choices of older workers. The paper …'. Our simulations show that the early-retirement pension adjustment factors introduced by the 1992 pension reform will, in …