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

modeling the retirement behaviour of partnered men and women. First, a single risk hazard model provides insights into the … women, because of caring responsibilities. In particular, the results suggest that women may delay their own retirement if …This paper provides new evidence of coordination of retirement by mature age couples in Australia. Two complementary …

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 … working in later life is constructed and enacted differently for men and women. …

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 …

that would call for expanded assistance for workers nearing retirement if early benefits were no longer available. It also …

maximum when employers or large shares of employees are reaching retirement age. Estimates suggest that a ten percent increase … in the share of employees who will be of retirement age in the future increases future annual closure probability by … closure probabilities as the result of the retirement decisions of individuals. However, this interpretation of the results …

labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension … motive for leaving the labour market; in particular, those anticipating a low retirement income actually wanted to be re … older long-term unemployed people into pre-retirement cannot be attributed to a utility-maximising decision in favour of …