This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …

normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than … of the bridge options. Therefore mainly employers with high employment adaption costs induced employees to use a bridge …

We study effects of financial incentives on the retirement age using stated preference data. Dutch survey respondents … structural model is estimated in which utility is the discounted sum of within period utilities that depend on employment status …

positive effects of active labor market programs (which are frequently offered in the Netherlands). -- institution ; incentives …In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the …

, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …