. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …

participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment ; bridge jobs ; baby boom …

standard deviation of starting age decrease when strict employment protection raises hiring and firing costs. We test the model … using annual distributions of recruits' characteristics from a 1975-95 panel of plants in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy …, the UK and the US. The model's predictions are supported using the Blanchard-Wolfers index of employment protection as …

This paper presents - in a new way of examination and portrayal - the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding "standard employment relationship" nor of its potential … "precariousness"; it is rather the requirement of increasing variability in employment relations due to rising employment …