normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than …This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before …

percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 …This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 …

increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …

this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement … paid by the employer until the full retirement age. Exploiting a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of … that, for men, the reform had a positive effect on employment, with a small positive effect on a program called Time …

risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in … Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed …

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 … with shorter unemployment duration, modest higher re-employment probability as well as labor income after unemployment …

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points … among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 …

risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in … Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed …

in the loss of eligibility for early retirement benefits between ages 62-67 years in Norway. We find that re-employment …This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavior among elderly displaced … workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian matched employer …

: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4 percentage points for men and 8.5 percentage points for women due to … the reform. The employment response is driven disproportionately by full-time workers and self-employed men, and is larger …