uptake during the period 2003-2012. As regional unionisation increases, inflows to regional unemployment and disability … decrease, but the outflow to retirement increases. …

private sector would lower the unemployment rate and reduce government costs. …

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 …

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 …

retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …

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 …