individuals allocate into different pathways out of the labour force conditional on early retirement. Design … compared to those remaining in the labour force. Findings – Eight pathways from work to an early retirement programme are … identified. Overall, availability and/or generosity of retirement programmes are important for early retirement through the …

on the labour market in eight European countries (Denmark France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland and the … – Specific questions will be more acute with the effective postponement of retirement: increasing inequalities between groups of … older workers, increasing uncertainty about the age of retirement, the way to keep lower educated workers in their jobs …

the median OECD country is the larger amount of social protection expenditure. The public health expenditure of Denmark is …Denmark’s public expenditure as a share of GDP is the highest in the OECD. The main difference between Denmark and …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals. …

address this question in the context of a recent German pension reform which raised the statutory retirement age by two years … of work ability at retirement and fundamental opposition. Our results show that expected work ability declines … situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … “unused capacity” in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status and … work and retirement, while differences in health and demographics play only a minor role. …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … in the case of the broad definition of retirement. Initial health stock shows a significant impact on both definitions of …

The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison … models. As expected from previous studies of mortality differences, the rate of retirement is lower among Swedish …-speaking males have a risk of very early retirement that is about 25 per cent lower than that of Finnish-speaking males. Among …