propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …

, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract as the … optimal contract that integrates unemployment insurance and retirement pension systems …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …

phenomenon in France and examine its link with the immigrants' labor force status. We use longitudinal data from the 'Echantillon …

policies in France. Finally we show that the age-dynamics of employment is optimal when the Hosios condition holds and we …

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …

in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime …