Aging populations strain pension systems, prompting policymakers to introduce partial retirement schemes to incentivize … workers to retire later. I study the impact of introducing partial retirement within collective bargaining agreements in … comes at the expense of a 10% decline in employment rates and a SEK 50,000 reduction in labor earnings. In summary, partial …

increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …

this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement … paid by the employer until the full retirement age. Exploiting a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of … that, for men, the reform had a positive effect on employment, with a small positive effect on a program called Time …

retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of … assortative mating and/or complementarities in leisure; the effects of all relevant factors on the retirement decision of one … poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement …

Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment … choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the … reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and spending in retirement are anything but average for women. Consequently …

We evaluate the actual effectiveness of disincentives that have been introduced for early retirement in Germany … are able to estimate the parameters of a structural dynamic retirement model. This allows us to answers the question …, whether and to what degree disincentives are able to steer retirement behavior of German pensioners. These estimates are based …

The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the ongoing harmonisation of the retirement age for women with that … for men on women's labour supply in Austria. According to the current legal framework, the standard retirement age for … women will be gradually raised from 60 to 65 years from 2024 onwards, with the retirement age being raised by 6 months each …

health and employment, using data from the 1992-1998 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that both …Husbands and wives often coordinate retirement decisions, as many married workers withdraw from the labor force at … about the same time as their spouses. However, joint retirement behavior may differ for couples in which one spouse retires …

The more traditional view of retirement as a one-time event has been superseded in recent years by the idea that, for … many workers, leaving the work force may involve a less abrupt transition to full-time retirement. This article examines … the process of exiting the labor force referred to in the media and academic literature as phased retirement. It explores …

standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …