duration until retirement entry and (ii) on the duration until exit from gainful employment. I estimate discrete time duration … identified. The permanent reduction of retirement benefit amounts causes a postponement of retirement entry by about fifteen … months and a delay of employment exit by about nine months on average. -- retirement insurance ; labor force participation …

retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between … retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is devoted to analyzing the long-run financial implications of such a reform …. We show that with actuarial adjustments the long-run contribution rate is an increasing function of the retirement age …

retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between … retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is devoted to analyzing the long-run financial implications of such a reform …. We show that with actuarial adjustments the long-run contribution rate is an increasing function of the retirement age …

This paper provides a two-part empirical analysis on how actuarial reduction rates for early retirement affect current … pension payments in Germany and to what extent the existence and the magnitude of these reduction rates influence people s … retirement planning. First, by evaluating a large dataset of administrative records it becomes evident that early retirement …