Background: The pension deficit has been rapidly enlarging for more than a decade. If the retirement age is set at a … old in last ten years, the feasibility of rising the retirement age has also been promoted. Methods: This paper aims to … construct a mathematical model for choosing a proper policy about raising retirement age on the basis of the interaction between …

a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 … responses to becoming eligible for the early retirement scheme. Our results indicate that the probability of retiring … retiring at the same age with deductions. Second, we employ a coarsened exact matching procedure to compare retirement entry …

a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 … responses to becoming eligible for the early retirement scheme. Our results indicate that the probability of retiring … retiring at the same age with deductions. Second, we employ a coarsened exact matching procedure to compare retirement entry …

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 … employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …