driven exits to retirement, in particular the early exits. …

It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after … retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show that the well-being of the retired continues to … reflect the unemployment that they experienced over their working life. These scarring effects are somewhat smaller for older …

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 …

time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse … out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the … unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born between 1940 and 1965 who were registered with any of the public …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of … this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the …

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 …

unemployment rate, their participation and employment rates are very low: 34% and 32%, respectively. We analyse whether this is due … of old-age benefits increases the probability of outflow from unemployment to inactivity, as do unemployment rate changes … more likely to leave the workforce compared to those who receive either unemployment benefits or social welfare benefits. …

this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement … article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement …

retirement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s instead freed positions and created employment opportunities. Finally, we show that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …