social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …

Paper presents a survey of five different approaches to retirement decision analysis. Simple life cycle labour supply … retirement decision as a static approach. Comparative static version of this model enables the determination of income, wealth … and social security on retirement decisions, but does not include neither the preference parameters of the individual or …

structural unemployment lodged at a high level and the average age of the labour force trending upward in the coming years, the … indicate that if definite changes in retirement rates are not forthcoming, the pressure for tax tightening in the near future … will be conspicuous. The projections show that pension reform alone will not dispel the pressure for tax increases. But if …

”), rather than a sudden change from full-time work to full-time retirement. Pension regulations may impede phased retirement … without a switch of employers by prohibiting access to pension assets. This study uses Health and Retirement Survey data to …Many workers reveal a preference for a gradual reduction in work hours as they approach retirement (“phased retirement …

unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage … society. We find that lowering the pension replacement rate and increasing the retirement age can have strong labor market …This paper investigates the dynamic consequences of demographic change and various pension reform scenarios for Austria …

The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …