employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before … normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that …

risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a … early due to exceptional rules is not affected. -- Labour supply ; retirement behaviour ; old age unemployment ; duration …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in …

market of elderly unemployed workers. I exploit two Austrian pension reforms increasing the early retirement age step … retirement age are systematically assigned to programs increasing their job application and job search skills, while workers more …This paper studies the impact of raising the eligibility age of early retirement on the re-integration into the labor …

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 ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible …

this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from …