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 …

. Differences for older male and female workers over time, may be explained by changes in labor and retirement policies. …

countries, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being … status and the age distribution among elderly people. We also demonstrate that working beyond the normal retirement age has a … that the normal retirement age is strictly enforced in urban China and seniors attempting to work face intensive …

This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …

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

incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. We propose an estimation strategy where the retirement …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 …

old-age retirement, disability, sick leave, and unemployment of the aged are explained. The third section is concerned …The paper reviews large literature on retirement, keeping in mind the goal of finding a suitable model to the labour … defining retirement. The second section deals with a multitude of labour market exit channels. Specific features of modelling …

retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men - especially those in lower-wage jobs - seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …