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 …

We analyze the effects of increasing the retirement age in two economies with overlapping generations and within cohort … defined benefit to a defined contribution. We find that if increase in the retirement age is phased in a way that allows …

: while it may be more efficient to have highly productive individuals work more and retire older, earlier retirement may be …, efficient retirement ages must increase in productivity. We also show that this pattern is implemented by pension benefits that … not only depend on the age of retirement, but are designed to be actuarially unfair. Second, in a version of environment …