asserts that high unemployment caused early retirement (push factors/demand side). This study finds that institutional … eligibility rules are strongly correlated with annual, age-specific retirement rates. In contrast, aggregate unemployment cannot …This paper analyses annual, age-specific retirement rates in Germany between 1971 and 1991. The time-series data show …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by … changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional panel data provided by Eurostat, the statistical office of the … European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is …