We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an … retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in doing so, estimates of the individuals' responses to financial … incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. We propose an estimation strategy where the retirement …

retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpectedshock in their financial situation around retirement and … distribution of expectations andrealizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes-simistic and attach more …

active working life. Retirement through either of these pensions was and in 2006 still is an accessible exit route from the … labour market that provides a minimal but secure income flow. For those reaching the minimum legal retirement age, retirement … system make retirement very attractive, especially for those with bad labour market prospects. Accepting that this system was …

retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal … examine how social security financial incentives and personal characteristics affects one's own and spouses' retirement … decisions. Our results suggested that couples synchronize retirement and that they respond similarly to their own …

left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However …, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract as the … optimal contract that integrates unemployment insurance and retirement pension systems. …

In order to estimate labour supply responses among older people we have employed a very simple model of retirement …-68 in 1996. The empirical model is employed to assess the impact on retirement of moving the Norwegian pension system … towards actuarial fairness. Future annual pension benefits are increased if retirement is postponed say, for one year. In one …

In this paper we analyse old-age retirement decisions of Slovenian men and women eligible to retire in the period 1997 …-2003. In comparison to established market economies, we find relatively high hazard rates of retirement that decline with age … versa. We also find that the probability of retirement increases with social security wealth and decreases with net wages …