employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before … normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that …

increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the …

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We … higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This …