Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan - In: European Economic Review 58 (2013) C, pp. 31-57
We use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1 2004, requires the elderly to formally...