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 …

retirement before the termination of the contract. When retirement is an event which occurs exogenously and information is … workers who will retire early (the 'bad' workers) from applying for these jobs. Secondly, we endogenize the retirement … the 'bad' workers. These asymmetries in the information lead to an excess of retirement compared to the full information …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …

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