surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …

educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …

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 …Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and …

to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension age from 60 to 61 on the employment of women and their partners … cohorts born at different times. We find that women's employment rates at age 60 increased by 7.3 percentage points when the … employment rates of the male partners also increased by 4.2 percentage points. The magnitude of these effects, and the results …

In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to …, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the period when the female state pension age rose to age 62. Using … the same difference-in-differences methodology as before, we find that women's employment rates at ages 60 to 61 were …

underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is … a significant predictor of retirement among employees while underemployed employees are less likely to retire. …

For the last two decades, the increase of employment among individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the … European employment agenda. The present paper focuses on the case of Belgium, France, Germany, and The Netherlands over the … period 1997–2011. First, we provide descriptive analysis of older workers’ employment using data from the European Union …

women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the … policy trade-offs. -- Older workers ; statutory retirement age ; hours of work …

market than unemployment or social welfare beneficiaries. Our findings support higher retirement age-the age when workers …