Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI …). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers … brief background sketch of the labor market situation of older workers to examine issues of prime concern to older workers …

We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel … them. Instead, a large fraction of these individuals stop working entirely. Our findings suggest that older workers may …

We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for … the wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Through intensive case studies in … circumstances under which these workers are likely to be adversely affected, minimally affected, or even benefitted by such …

The 1990-1991 recession has intensified concerns about the consequences of workers' job losses. To estimate the … magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that … includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and information about their firms. We find that when high-tenure workers …