The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU … the approach of firms and workers to early retirement. Policy changes influence actors' behavior in the medium run and …

The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (1/2% of the workforce over 65), yet staged … make little allowance for fair pension increases if retirement is deferred. While these laws have begun to change, we find …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one's previous employment …

Die Beschäftigung älterer Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren merklich zugenommen. Die Studie … Faktor für den Erhalt der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit im Lebensverlauf, ist jedoch strukturell in Deutschland nach wie vor …

unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement … decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a …

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative … voluntary and involuntary retirement. The effect of involuntary retirement is negative because the adverse effect on …

This study investigates the labor force behavior of older married couples in Germany. Monthly observations from the … employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …

individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup … predictions of the long-term impact of policies affecting the health gradient on workers' timing of retirement amid population …