discussion on this matter is significant, as the lowering of the retirement age is happening in Poland. Postponement of … to making a choice on whether people at the age of retirement should be left with an unequivocal choice: either work and … pensioners in work and thus create an opportunity for people who receive a retirement pension to work as long as possible? The …

This paper studies the impact of raising the eligibility age of early retirement on the re-integration into the labor … market of elderly unemployed workers. I exploit two Austrian pension reforms increasing the early retirement age step … retirement age are systematically assigned to programs increasing their job application and job search skills, while workers more …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual … data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis … the effect. Results suggest that the effect of the changes in early retirement age is substantial, amounting to 5 …

, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy … elderly people. We also show that working beyond the normal retirement age has a much stronger negative association with … earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …

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 …

paid by the employer until the full retirement age. Exploiting a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of … this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement …

educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …

retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of … assortative mating and/or complementarities in leisure; the effects of all relevant factors on the retirement decision of one … poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement …

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health …, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … and within countries and use retirement thresholds in an instrumental variable setting. On average, we find that entering …