This paper investigates how retirement influences the cognitive abilities of British older workers. The analysis …. Consistent with the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, we show that retirement induces cognitive decline, although the relationship … that maintaining a mentally engaging and stimulating life-style during retirement contributes to the cognitive health of …

which unemployment experiences have a scarring effect on British men during the Great Recession. Second, it provides an … insight into the relation between true state dependence and the business cycle by investigating the role of local unemployment … in affecting the persistence of unemployment incidence and by analysing the dynamics of unemployment scarring in the last …

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …