effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …

Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …