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Unemployment and retirement in a model with age-specific heterogeneity
Lefebvre, Mathieu
2009Spanish Economic Association symposium
 

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Keywords :
unemployment; retirement
Abstract :
[en] This paper presents a model where young and old workers compete for one type of jobs in the presence of retirement opportunity. Within this framework, we show that increased retirement opportunities (such as early retirement) has most of the time a depressing impact on the unemployment rate. Indeed the number of vacancies posted by fi rms is influenced by the probability that an old worker is going into retirement. We show that the degree to which younger workers are influenced by retirement of older workers depends on the relative productivity of young and older workers. It is only when older workers are much more productive than young workers that retirement may bene fit to unemployment.
Disciplines :
Economic systems & public economics
Author, co-author :
Lefebvre, Mathieu  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie publique appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
Unemployment and retirement in a model with age-specific heterogeneity
Publication date :
December 2009
Event name :
Spanish Economic Association symposium
Audience :
International
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