labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension … motive for leaving the labour market; in particular, those anticipating a low retirement income actually wanted to be re … older long-term unemployed people into pre-retirement cannot be attributed to a utility-maximising decision in favour of …

labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension … motive for leaving the labour market; in particular, those anticipating a low retirement income actually wanted to be re … older long-term unemployed people into pre-retirement cannot be attributed to a utility-maximising decision in favour of …

This paper provides new evidence of coordination of retirement by mature age couples in Australia. Two complementary … modeling the retirement behaviour of partnered men and women. First, a single risk hazard model provides insights into the … influences of a spouse’s characteristics on the retirement decision of the individual. Second, a competing-risks framework is …

forms of working as key to encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement. This article argues that there has been a … child-caring phase of life; and the prevailing tendency to think of end of working life and retirement as gender-neutral or …

analogue. Are older workers becoming unemployed or encouraged to take early retirement? Has the shift to less physically … early retirement has not significantly reduced the employment problem facing younger cohorts. …

that would call for expanded assistance for workers nearing retirement if early benefits were no longer available. It also …

maximum when employers or large shares of employees are reaching retirement age. Estimates suggest that a ten percent increase … in the share of employees who will be of retirement age in the future increases future annual closure probability by … closure probabilities as the result of the retirement decisions of individuals. However, this interpretation of the results …