Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout … Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour market and from personal motivation to prefer … benefits to wages. We focus on this latter effect and analyse whether workers would have stayed active had they not been …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be …

market than unemployment or social welfare beneficiaries. Our findings support higher retirement age-the age when workers …We examine whether easy and early access to old-age benefits induce older workers to become inactive. We use Polish LFS …

We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …

We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …