This research analyses retirement behaviour in Austria based on a combined administrative dataset. Data from the … comprehensive microsimulation model of the Austrian pension system is developed and applied to calculate retirement benefit …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual … data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis … the effect. Results suggest that the effect of the changes in early retirement age is substantial, amounting to 5 …

force participation is related to both a decline in the take-up of early retirement among 60-64-year-olds, an increase in … the average age of entry to a retirement program, and an increase in the propensity of working after entering a retirement … unemployment before retirement, age and education. …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. The causal … effect is identified based on the natural experiment generated by an institutional reform. The results of a binary retirement … financial retirement incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces a decline in the age …

We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply …

supply and endogenous retirement. When the fixed cost of work is increasing in wage, the optimal retirement wedge provides … stronger incentives for delayed retirement with age. Retirement benefits that resemble the US Social Security system can … implement the optimum. Calibrated numerical simulations suggest that a mix of retirement benefits that increase with claiming …

-calculation window, combined with the discrete change in the probability of retirement at the minimum retirement age. We find that … retirement age, reaching a 3% increase on average. This is not the case for employees of large firms, where earnings …

We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase … based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement program, which entailed that adjacent birth cohorts were exposed to … completely different work incentives from age 62. The reform removed a strict retirement earnings test such that pension wealth …

Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …