The Shorter Working Life: Transition Simulation

A Twelve-Year Institutional Scenario for Reducing Required Lifetime Labor

A companion simulation paper to The Shorter Working Life framework and Implementation Outline, modeling the first twelve years following institutional adoption of shorter-working-life reforms. It shows how phased retirement, partial retirement, and reduced-participation pathways could expand over time, how sectoral divergence and political friction emerge, and how a shorter working life becomes institutionally visible before it becomes universal.