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. …

are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits … than the former system. I study whether the reform has led to delayed retirement by examining the retirement patterns of … elderly Swedish workers that were differentially affected by the reform. I use duration analysis with annual data from the …

-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s, older workers had the option of partial retirement with an income replacement …Knowledge about how elderly workers react to changes in pension benefits is important in guiding the design of social … women chose part-time retirement after the reduction in benefit levels in 1981. There was an approximate 4 percentage point …

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

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 … unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of …

This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given … evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in industries with greater comparative advantage. This …

matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous …

workers, but they tend not to hire them, and provides an explorative analysis of the establishments that employ older workers …. A special focus is on how sensitive are the findings when the definition of older workers become more restrictive. Using … large enough to explain some of the observed difference across definitions. The retirement age in the guaranteed pension …

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 … workers as compared to firms when it comes to the retirement date. Using an instrumental variable approach to account for …