retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before … normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout … Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour market and from personal motivation to prefer … benefits to wages. We focus on this latter effect and analyse whether workers would have stayed active had they not been …