We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted … payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives, thereby substantially reducing the implied tax on the husband's employment …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early … retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 … implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 … implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early … retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may …

Increasing life expectancies and uncertainty about future retirement incomes are likely to lead to various changes in … uses a new source of longitudinal data on the health, labour force participation and retirement decisions of older New …

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

severance pay. -- Early Retirement ; Involuntary Early Retirement ; Severance Pay ; Social Security ; Pensions ; Employment …Early retirement of workers is used by firms as means to rejuvenate their workforces. In principle, workers can either … simply be laid off or can be offered an early retirement option combined with a financial bonus. However, dismissing masses …

This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …