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 …

Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the …

unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the … unemployment benefits for early retirement purposes. …

the inflow to and the outflow from unemployment. The REBP also induced a strong increase in early retirement and in many …