Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence From a Policy Reform

Summary In the early 1990s the Dutch labour unions and employer organisations agreed to transform the generous and actuarially unfair early retirement (ER) schemes into less generous and actuarially fair schemes that reward individuals for postponing retirement. The starting dates of these new ER pr...

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Published in:De Economist (Netherlands) 2010-09, Vol.158 (3), p.209-236
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C41
Civil service
D91
duration analysis
Early retirement
Economic Policy
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Incentives
Income
intertemporal choice
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Labor force
Labor law
Labor supply
Labor unions
Microeconomics
Netherlands
Older people
Public Finance
Reforms
Retirement
Social policy
Studies
Tax rates
Workers
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