enable people to have adequate income at retirement and to ensure the system's financial sustainability. Many European … European countries (CEE) face even more challenges in ensuring adequate income at retirement. First, CEE countries were … also. The paper discusses latest developments of retirement pension systems in Europe and state involvement in private pen …

We estimate the impact of public pension systems on labor supply far from the normal retirement age by exploiting … Poland's switch from a Defined Benefit to a Notional Defined Contribution scheme for men born after 1948. Using the universe …

This paper quantifies the effect of Poland's 1999 pension reform on the inequality of future pension benefits. The …

This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

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 …

possible need to stay at work until the standard retirement age. In economic theory, retirement is described as an individual … decision in which the opportunity costs of leisure time are weighed against the anticipated retirement income. How the … to which couples coordinate their retirement plans and take a joint decision. Our analysis shows that joint retirement …

are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits … than the former system. I study whether the reform has led to delayed retirement by examining the retirement patterns of … retirement hazard among latter born cohorts, who were more affected by the reform. This implies that retirement is delayed. Most …

By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age … are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for … individual health. Using the exogenous variation in minimum retirement age induced by a sequence of Italian pension reforms …