market than unemployment or social welfare beneficiaries. Our findings support higher retirement age-the age when workers …We examine whether easy and early access to old-age benefits induce older workers to become inactive. We use Polish LFS …

surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …

retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation … educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life …

state pension age was increased to 61 and their probability of unemployment increased by 1.3 percentage points. The …

the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce … of hours and the wage rate, this paper finds that older self-employed workers are more likely to wish to adjust their …

This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor … competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can freely reduce working hours with their current employer before … some explorative results which illustrate that increasing working hours flexibility does not seem to increase older workers …