This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement … data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early … 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 …

-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early … 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 …

to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension age from 60 to 61 on the employment of women and their partners … cohorts born at different times. We find that women's employment rates at age 60 increased by 7.3 percentage points when the … employment rates of the male partners also increased by 4.2 percentage points. The magnitude of these effects, and the results …

In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to …, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the period when the female state pension age rose to age 62. Using … the same difference-in-differences methodology as before, we find that women's employment rates at ages 60 to 61 were …

: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4 percentage points for men and 8.5 percentage points for women due to … the reform. The employment response is driven disproportionately by full-time workers and self-employed men, and is larger …

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 … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …

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. …