The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China's population fell as deaths … China's exports. France is pushing through an increase of the retirement age in the face of what is called a demographic … financially unsustainable. This paper argues that most of the discussion and policy solutions proposed surrounding aging of …

We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While … previous studies looked at the impact of bad working conditions on retirement intentions, we can use the panel dimension to … study actual retirement as well as other pathways out of a job. As indicators for job quality we use three different …

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …

The paper reviews large literature on retirement, keeping in mind the goal of finding a suitable model to the labour … defining retirement. The second section deals with a multitude of labour market exit channels. Specific features of modelling … old-age retirement, disability, sick leave, and unemployment of the aged are explained. The third section is concerned …

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement. …

We analyze the causal effect of retirement on the size, composition and intensity of social relationships using data … from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the … different retirement eligibility ages as instruments for the endogenous individuals' retirement decisions and controls for time …

This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an …

This paper studies the way in which labor market fluctuations affect the transition to early retirement among older … industry employment increases (decreases) the probability of early retirement. This result is driven by the public sector; in … after early retirement are higher during declining as well as expanding industry employment. The results support an …

situation post retirement. However, economic motives seem to be more important for younger pensioners. …