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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery

Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...

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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

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Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection

Chrostek, Paweł; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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A description of routes out of the labor force for workers in Sweden

Hallberg, Daniel (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Planning for the "Expected Unexpected" : Work and Retirement in the U.S. After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock

Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter analyzes the implications of the unexpected 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic for work and retirement in the U.S. The pandemic induced the greatest loss of jobs in the shortest period of time in U.S. history. A slow economic recovery would surely have endangered work longer/retire later...

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