this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from …

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 …

surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …

retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation … educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life …

state pension age was increased to 61 and their probability of unemployment increased by 1.3 percentage points. The …

the reform. The employment response is driven disproportionately by full-time workers and self-employed men, and is larger …