fachlichen und physisch-psychischen Anforderungen bis zum Erreichen der Altersgrenze erfüllen." Alexander Gunkel …

This paper provides new evidence of coordination of retirement by mature age couples in Australia. Two complementary … modeling the retirement behaviour of partnered men and women. First, a single risk hazard model provides insights into the … influences of a spouse’s characteristics on the retirement decision of the individual. Second, a competing-risks framework is …

forms of working as key to encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement. This article argues that there has been a … child-caring phase of life; and the prevailing tendency to think of end of working life and retirement as gender-neutral or …

analogue. Are older workers becoming unemployed or encouraged to take early retirement? Has the shift to less physically … early retirement has not significantly reduced the employment problem facing younger cohorts. …

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 …

Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …