Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in … particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. To measure differences in labor market reactions of … increased the early retirement age for women from 60 to 63 years. Based on a large administrative dataset, we use a regression …

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in … particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. To measure differences in labor market reactions of … increased the early retirement age for women from 60 to 63 years. Based on a large administrative dataset, we use a regression …

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 … 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 … risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a …

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using …. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our …

-pillar-system of public, occupational, and private pensions. In Germany, economists expect a pension gap for future retiree cohorts as … public pensions will decrease and private old age provision is low. In this paper we ask, whether this pension gap might lead … to the rise of a fourth pillar of retirement income: labor earnings. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we …

To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …