This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build an equilibrium life-cycle model with labor … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in …

s and 1980s accounts for the decline in employment among older workers in the United States. Second, the interaction … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in … unemployment can be attributed to the early retirement policies that were implemented in Europe from the 1970s up until the early …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … per cent increase relative to the average employment duration, compensating for the additional time spent in unemployment …The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the …

the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …

The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it …. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into … persistent for temporary jobs and self-employment. Permanent jobs in the hard-hit sector showed increasingly large persistent …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

This paper presents new information on activity-related eligibility criteria for unemployment and related benefits in … OECD and EU countries in 2017, comparing the strictness of "demanding" elements built into unemployment benefits across … countries and over time. Eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits determine what claimants need to do to successfully …