This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and … retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or … sector workers born in 1949 and 1950 and find strong ex ante effects on mental health for workers who are affected by the …

extensive and intensive labour supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to … fertility decline, a retirement reform, designed to increase labour supply at the extensive margin, is found to simultaneously … reduce labour supply at the intensive margin. This backlash to retirement reform requires the statutory retirement age to …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

In 2007 Germany has introduced a pension reform which increases the normal retirement age from currently age 65 to 67 … effective retirement age by about one year and redistribute towards future cohorts. However, it hardly reduces old-age poverty … since rich people are more flexible in adjusting retirement. Overall, the efficiency gains of the reform are very modest …

Both the impacts of financial incentives and health on transitions into retirement and inactivity by older workers have … incentives on the retirement behaviour of workers who experienced health shocks and those who remained in good health. Our … evidence suggests that the impact on retirement of forward-looking incentive measures such as the peak value is conditional on …

attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old‐age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

the impact of mid-life experiences in the educational, work, health, and family life spheres on retirement intentions and …Objectives: The life course perspective suggests that the retirement process cannot be understood thoroughly without … paying attention to distal life experiences. In empirical studies on predictors of retirement, however, mid-life experiences …

and seniority requirements for retirement, especially for women in private employment. We investigated whether older … Italian employed women reacted to the postponement of retirement by increasing their sick-leave. The empirical analysis offers …

pension risk and provides insurance to workers facing health or productivity shocks. Flexible retirement and flexible pension …Flexible retirement - that is the opportunity to choose one’s own personal retirement age - serves as a hedge against … discusses three conditions to provide insurance through flexible retirement. First, it should be possible to adjust the pension …

system in the Netherlands to calculate net replacement rates at each age from 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement … analyze the implications of late full retirement and partial retirement for the occupational and state pension entitlements …. We pay particular attention to the retirement scenarios that are relevant for the current policy measures, aimed at …