Hours of work and retirement behavior

C. Sofia Machado () and Miguel Portela ()
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C. Sofia Machado: Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

No 02/2011, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with early exits from the labor force. A reduction in hours of work seems to signal the worker’s wish to retire sooner rather than to announce the desire of remaining in the labor market.

Keywords: aging; retirement; working hours; older workers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J26 J22 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-hrm and nep-lab
Date: 2011
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