: What does the currentlydivorced population look like; and what sort of people are likely to divorce(including breakdown of … population. The same factors, withfinancial difficulties, are precursors of divorce. The deprived are more at risk ofdivorce …

As unemployment falls it is often the most disadvantaged unemployed whoget left behind. To identify what works to …

unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …

gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe. Aktive Arbeitsförderung und Akivierung von Arbeitslosen für den Arbeitsmarkt würden keinen Sinn machen, wenn …

which explicitly accountsfor the role of the lifecycle as well as search and matching frictions in the labor market. In our … model,public pension programs alter the age composition of the labor force by inducing the jobless elderlyto retire. By … requiring a long history of labor market attachment in order to receive benefits, theseprograms raise the future value of …

the lifecycle affects aggregate labor market activity, and in particular, unemployment. While much work has been done on … phenomenon poses numerous challenges for the design of public pension programs and labor market policies. To better understand … exploring how the lifecycle influences individual labor market behavior, its impact on aggregate labor market outcomes is far …

retirement and hence creating job vacancies for the young, improve the allocation of workers to jobs in the labor market? Using a … standard model of labor market search, we establish that the equilibrium with no policy-induced retirement can be efficient … more than labor market search theory implies that their jobs are worth. An important effect, ignored by the popular view …

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all … positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic …