Im Zuge der Erhöhung des regulären Renteneintrittsalters auf 67 wird stärker individualisierten Formen des Altersübergangs – wie der (echten) Altersteilzeit und der im Rahmen der Rentenversicherung verfügbaren Teilrenten – in jüngerer Zeit wieder vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Zwar...

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 individuals and therefore serves as a source of...

This paper studies the evolution of early retirement due to disease and injury in the German labor force between 1988 and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database, we show that new drug launches...