It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after … retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show that the well-being of the retired continues to … reflect the unemployment that they experienced over their working life. These scarring effects are somewhat smaller for older …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of … this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the …

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 …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of … this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the …