This research analyses retirement behaviour in Austria based on a combined administrative dataset. Data from the … comprehensive microsimulation model of the Austrian pension system is developed and applied to calculate retirement benefit …

incentives to the worker in the light of generous early retirement opportunities. The sociological literature on the other hand … decrease of the incentives to retire early, e.g. by a raise in the average effective retirement age, need not necessarily harm …

Western societies. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper …