It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after … reflect the unemployment that they experienced over their working life. These scarring effects are somewhat smaller for older … the substantial variation in culture and labour-market institutions over the 29 countries in our sample, there are no …

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

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 …

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

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 …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …