early retirement for labour market reasons periodic payments to older workers who retire before reaching the legalstandard retirement age due to unemployment or to job reduction caused by economic measures such as the restructuring of an industrial sector or of a business these payments normally cease when the beneficiary becomes entitled to an old age pension data to be considered to calculate the indicator are either the annual average or the total value for december of a given year especially when using administrative record data the option retained for the numerator should be consistent with data used for the denominator