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 …

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 …

In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems … during the last two decades, by discouraging early retirement and increasing incentives to work for older workers. Senior … reaction to retirement incentives set by governments. This paper highlights how disutility to work can influence the …

Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time …

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 …