policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching … estimates employment probability increases slightly, especially in the first two years after entrance into the programme …

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching … estimates employment probability increases slightly, especially in the first two years after entrance into the programme …

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points … among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 …

This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …

Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate … the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use labor-force survey data, pooled over …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …