This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavioramong elderly displaced workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian matched employer-employee data containing information on bankruptcy dates and...

Over the last two decades, most OECD countries have reformed their social security in order to make early departures from the labor market increasingly difficult. Despite the fiscal gains that are expected from these reforms, it is likely that these gains from longer careers will be partly...

This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment payments in the COVID-19 context. We use a novel set of linked whole-of-population administrative records to examine more than half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on...

Demographic projections forecast a doubling of the dependency ratio until 2050 as well as an increase of 10% in population due to longer life expectancy in Switzerland. To quantify the effects on social security and public finances, we use a computational overlapping generations model with five...

Around the world, central bankers closely monitor monthly unemployment statistics. A nation's assessment of the optimal size of its labor force and employment levels should be rational. In the United States, the ages of labor participants measured by the statistics range from 16 year olds...

In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....

We examine the effects of involuntary job loss and retirement on the mental health of older Americans using the Health and Retirement Surveys (1992-2002). Potential endogeneity may arise due to reverse causality or latent individual effects or both. Using several econometric techniques we obtain...

Based on data from the two first waves of SHARE- Israel, conducted in 2004-2005 and 2009-2010, this study examines the extent to which individuals moved in or out of paid work and the extent to which these labor market transitions are associated with policy changes introduced in the years...