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 …

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

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching … estimates employment probability increases slightly, especially in the first two years after entrance into the programme …

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points … among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 …

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 …

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 …This paper studies the way in which labor market fluctuations affect the transition to early retirement among older …

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. …

-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s, older workers had the option of partial retirement with an income replacement … women chose part-time retirement after the reduction in benefit levels in 1981. There was an approximate 4 percentage point … drop in the partial retirement propensity among eligible 60-year old men, and a 5.7 percent drop among women. This …

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

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue … that extended UI generates program complementarity (increased take-up of UI followed by DI and/or regular retirement …