subsidies should be targeted and how the wage subsidy programs interact with incentives for early retirement are open questions. …

In 1996, Germany introduced the Altersteilzeit (ATZ) law, which encouraged longer working lives through partial … retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment … and retirement after ATZ. We find the policy induced growth in part-time work for men and extended men's expected duration …

Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed …In Deutschland wurde die Altersgrenze für Altersrente wegen Arbeitslosigkeit oder nach Altersteilzeitarbeit von 60 auf …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in …

to the statutory retirement age. In a first section we look at the income mix of early retirees and senior workers from a …

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using …. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our …