"Danmark har gennem de sidste 40 år oplevet en markant økonomisk fremgang. Fra en situation med høj arbejdsløshed, stort underskud på de offentlige finanser, høj offentlig gæld, uholdbare offentlige finanser, stort betalingsbalanceunderskud og udlandsgæld i 1979 er dansk økonomi i 2019 i en situation, hvor alle de nævnte problemer er fjernet eller markant reduceret. Denne artikel peger på fem elementer, der har bidraget: Troværdighed om fastkurspolitikken, introduktionen af arbejdsmarkedspensioner, skattereformer, arbejdsmarkedsreformer og finanspolitisk planlægning herunder indeksering af pensionsalderen."

Whether households prefer a constant, increasing, or decreasing path of consumption in retirement has important implications for our understanding of retirement adequacy.  Financial planners and researchers have often assumed that retirees would like to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living.

This paper examines the relationship between life expectancy and labor force participation at older ages. It uses information on life expectancy from the U.S. Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project and information on labor force participation from the five-year American Community Survey.

The number of people receiving disability benefits in the Netherlands is increasing. The disability scheme for partially disabled workers (WGA) uses financial incentives to increase labour effort when workers exhaust their first stage benefit in the two-staged disability scheme. Do these financial incentives induce work resumption?

Self-employed people on average prefer to continue working two years longer than their salaried counterparts. They are also more often uncertain about their future retirement age. Previous research suggests that this difference could partly be explained by the relatively limited pension savings of the self-employed.

In the last decades, many governments have enacted flexible retirement reforms as a seemingly elegant way to increase older workers’ labor supply. Börsch-Supan et al. (2018) use the synthetic control method to evaluate the effects of flexibility reforms from nine OECD countries that came into effect between 1992 and 2006. To evaluate the significance of the treatment effects, the authors apply in-space placebo studies. This paper scrutinizes these results by applying in-time placebo studies.

We analyze the potential role of adverse working conditions and management practices in the determination of employees' retirement behavior.

Flexible retirement is supposed to increase labor supply of older workers without touching the third rail of pension politics, the higly unpopular increase of the retirement age. While this may have intuitive appeal, this paper shows that it might be wishful thinking.

Increasing life expectancy and decreasing fertility have led to a shift in the workforce age structure towards older age groups. Deteriorating health and reduced work capacity are among the challenges to retaining older workers in the labour force.In this article, Tove Midtsundstad and Roy A. Nielsen examine whether workplace interventions to facilitate work among employees with health problems or reduced work capacity affect disability rates among employees aged 50 years and older.

Past research has found that individuals are more likely to move to places with the best “bundle” of amenities and opportunities.1 Influential factors may include house prices and jobs, as well as government finances, such as taxes and debt. More recently, unfunded pension liabilities have raised concerns about jurisdictions’ ability to manage their finances, as an increasing portion of today’s taxes must be used to cover past shortfalls and future taxes may end up being higher as well.