This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

labor markets. We find that workers age 62 to 69 are responsive to the unemployment rate and to long-run fluctuations in … the rising unemployment rate will be almost 50 percent larger than the decrease in retirement brought about by the stock …

more severe. A higher unemployment rate around the time of retirement reduces Social Security income for those in the …

Unemployment Insurance system to measure the effects of imperfect experience-rating on temporary layoffs and other types of … unemployment. We find a strong negative association between the degree of experience-rating and the rate of temporary layoff … unemployment, with the largest effect in recessionary years and the smallest effect in expansionary years. Increases in the degree …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent …