Early retirement as a labor force policy: an international overview, (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, March 1987

Early retirement as a labor force policy:
an international overview

Barry Alan Mirkin
Economic affairs officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland

In recent years, governments and firms have increasingly turned to early-out schemes to soak up excess labor supply; the projected aging of western populations threatens the viability of such schemes, which have the unfortunate side effect of masking macroeconomic failings.

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