States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

This article proposes a new approach to estimate the effect of the unemployment rate on the labor participation ratio …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …

labor force participation rate. Some public discussions suggest that the decline of US unemployment from its 2009 peak of 10 … one-third is found attributable to the lagged influence of high, and especially long-term, unemployment, going forward the …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

This article proposes a new approach to estimate the effect of the unemployment rate on the labor participation ratio …