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 …

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 …

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …. Furthermore, the programme seems to reduce the measured unemployment risk. However, the total number of hours worked is …

market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …