unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

This study investigates job polarization in the United States and in France. In the data, the dynamics of employment … France until the mid-1990s, and then rebounded until 2007. The evolution of US routine employment went in opposite directions … skilled labor are the main drivers of polarization in a context of growing employment levels. In France, in contrast …

into account distortions related to unemployment benefits and bargaining power shows the robustness of this result, in …