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 …

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a … on unemployment: positive shocks reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. For the observed process of …

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous …