Increasing retirement ages in Denmark: Do changes in gender, education, employment status and health matter?

ABSTRACT: Recent studies report significant increases in retirement ages over the past two to three decades in most countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development-increases that research has attributed mainly to changes in the legislative frameworks for retirement in these countries. Using unique data from the Danish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, this study investigates whether and, if so to what extent, changes to the workforce in terms of gender, education, employment status (employed or self-employed) and health contribute to explaining differences in retirement ages between the cohorts born in 1935 and 1950. The retirement window of these cohorts stretches from the early 1990s to the late 2010s-a period characterized by substantial changes to workforce. On average, retir

SUBMITTER: Amilon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10276799 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature