The contrasting trends toward earlier retirement and greater longevity have resulted in steadily increasing retirement … costs over the last forty years. One important factor influencing early retirement decisions is the expansion of retirement … benefits; but studies predict that most countries, particularly those with early retirement incentives, will be unable to meet …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

with demographic aging is to rise the employment rate of older people. According to Eurostat, the employment rate of the … average employment rate of older workers in European Union, which was 58.7 percent in 2018. This paper focuses on older people …

In this study, I investigate the effect of partial retirement at the firm level on older workers' labor participation …. Thereby, I contribute to the controversial debate about the effects of partial retirement. Using detailed administrative … employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit the introduction of partial retirement options in Germany related to the law on …