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 …

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our … is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 31 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we …

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … effects of demography, health, and disability insurance / Axel Börsch-Supan -- Comment / Robert J. Willis -- Labor market … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P …