The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets … studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in … different EC countries are forced to synchronize minimum retirement ages, which are lower now for females than males in a number …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …