This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 … empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 …

employment rate since workers also apply for more disability and unemployment benefits. Moreover, most of them simply retire … normal retirement age (NRA) from 60 years to 65 years for private-sector male employees. The analysis, based on a difference …

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 …

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

risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a … early due to exceptional rules is not affected. -- Labour supply ; retirement behaviour ; old age unemployment ; duration …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in …

risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a …This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in … Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed …

This paper studies the impact of raising the eligibility age of early retirement on the re-integration into the labor … market of elderly unemployed workers. I exploit two Austrian pension reforms increasing the early retirement age step … with shorter unemployment duration, modest higher re-employment probability as well as labor income after unemployment …

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 … empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 …

unemployment benefits. -- Retirement age ; policy reform ; labor supply ; disability ; unemployment …Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men …