This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement … age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …

employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours … increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop corresponding to an aggregate employment effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect was … driven by an increase in parttime employment while full-time employment was not affected. The statistical significance of …

In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly … important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of … in HRT use. Our results indicate substantial benefits of HRT use to the short-term employment of middle-aged women. …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated amongst non-affiliated firms. The lack of …

the relation between changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria, which took place … recovery of the Bulgarian economy in view of the noticeable trends in the educational structure of employment in the period … with the trends being developed in other European countries in terms of the post-crisis employment of various educational …