unemployment data for France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Additionally, we test different forecasting horizons, in order …

-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re … heterogeneity and to the endogeneity of displacement. -- Job displacement ; job loss ; unemployment duration ; retirement …