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 …

to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity … estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the topic "unemployment", we show that out-of-sample forecasts made ahead … the demand for unemployment insurance. In addition, we provide a robust assessment of the uncertainty surrounding these …

their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive …

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 …

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 …

to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity … estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the topic "unemployment", we show that out-of-sample forecasts made ahead … the demand for unemployment insurance. In addition, we provide a robust assessment of the uncertainty surrounding these …