In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases … relationship between social security programs and labor force participation, Social Security Programs and Retirement around the … World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages explores people’s capacity to work beyond the current retirement age. It brings …

Policy makers have often argued that an additional benefit of facilitating early retirement is that it creates … employment for the young. This may happen if older and younger workers are substitutes. Nowadays policy makers’ goals are to … discourage early retirement to counter the economic consequences of an aging population and, interestingly, the consequences for …

Policy makers have often argued that an additional benefit of facilitating early retirement is that it creates … employment for the young. This may happen if older and younger workers are substitutes. Nowadays policy makers' goals are to … discourage early retirement to counter the economic consequences of an aging population and, interestingly, the consequences for …

these observations, and a Bartik-type argument, we argue that an increase in the employment share of an occupation with a … workers in such occupations may have increased in order to lower retirement rates. Using difference-in-difference methods, we … do find evidence for the former, but we do not see a direct relation with retirement. However, an indirect effect through …

The authors formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on … consumption, health, health investment, savings and retirement. They argue that the Grossman literature has been unnecessarily … mortality have continued to improve in the developed world, retirement ages have continued to fall with retirees pointing to …

In the Netherlands, from 1989 to 2013, in the age group 55-63 the annual exit rate from employment to receiving social … increase amounts to staying, on average, three months longer in employment from age 55 onwards in 2013 than in 1989. These … predominantly by making (early) retirement schemes actuarially fair from 2006 onwards. The increase in disability insurance's income …

schemes such as social security and disability insurance, and from private arrangements, such as early retirement and … occupational pensions. In general, the generous replacement rates offered by these schemes act as powerful stimuli for retirement …. Although Dutch research into the retirement effects of the earnings replacing schemes for the elderly was limited until the …

employment transitions and retirement expectations of older workers by exploiting the wealth of information about individuals …-reported characteristics are more strongly related to moves from full-time to part-time employment. Using expected retirement age or subjective …, responsibility, difficulty, stress, peer pressure, and relations with co-workers are related to full or partial retirement. We study …