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 …

a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise …

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 …

Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement … transitions into re-employment and retirement. The findings suggest that in countries with institutional provisions for older … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …

Though never stated explicitly, there is a hidden hypothesis that in a normal pension system, the retirement age and …

In Germany, a large proportion of new retirees--at times, more than half of them--have taken disability retirement …. This study investigates the role of expected benefits in determining that choice. The author finds that among German men in … 1984-91, age, health, and prior wages were much stronger predictors of the transition into disability retirement than were …

groups, i.e. people in the first half of the 60s of which many are eligible for early retirement programs and people older … than 65 mostly eligible for social security retirement programs. For these two age groups the actual development in labor … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …