Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...

Using panel data extracted from wave 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this paper investigates the impact of unemployment on health outcomes of the European elderly during the period 2004 to 2015. Various estimators with panel fixed-effects are employed...

Using panel data extracted from wave 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this paper investigates the impact of unemployment on health outcomes of the European elderly during the period 2004 to 2015. Various estimators with panel fixed–effects are employed...

We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...

We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...