We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …

postponed retirement, stayed employed longer, postponed unemployment, and shifted to alternative pathways into retirement. The …We study causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from … 60 to 63. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA) increased the …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … positive returns hold up even in poor labor market situations. -- youth unemployment ; school-to-work transition ; returns to …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. The causal … effect is identified based on the natural experiment generated by an institutional reform. The results of a binary retirement … financial retirement incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces a decline in the age …

We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial … incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces more than 70 percent of females to postpone their … retirement. The responsiveness of male workers, who undergo a different treatment, is lower. -- retirement insurance ; incentives …

unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed … effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns … for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …