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 … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before … normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that …

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 … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension … market participation of older workers this paper deals with the reasons why the majority of older long-term unemployed people … analysis based on a survey of recipients of the Unemployment Benefit II shows that low or no propensity to work was rarely the …