normal retirement age (NRA) from 60 years to 65 years for private-sector male employees. The analysis, based on a difference …

We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of (Continental) European males … the cross country and time variation in employment protection legislation and minimum retirement age to study whether … policies that have increased minimum retirement age and reduced the strictness of employment protection legislation have raised …

observed trend towards early retirement. In a world of laissez-faire or of first-best efficiency, there would be no such … variables are not observable, the optimal policy does imply a distortion of the retirement decision. Consequently, the … inducement of early retirement may be part of the optimal tax-transfer policy. We consider a model in which individuals differ in …

In 1988, an early retirement program (AFP) was introduced in Norway for the 66-year-olds. Since then, AFP has gradually …

the automatability of workers and retirement timing. Based on the theoretical model of task-based technological changes … and drawing data from the Health and Retirement Study and O*NET, we create an Automatability Index based on workers …’ primary skills. Using the Index as our main explanatory variable, we find that the automatability accelerates retirement and …