Reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits is considered by many as a policy that will discourage labor supply by mature workers. This paper analyzes a recent Norwegian pension reform which effectively lowered the eligibility age of retirement from 67 to 62 for a group of workers. For the...

Klappentext: Die Digitalisierung verändert die Arbeitswelt grundlegend, führt zu neuen Organisationsformen und einer zunehmenden Entgrenzung von Arbeit und privater Sphäre. Dies kann mehr Flexibilität bei der Vereinbarkeit verschiedener Lebensbereiche bedeuten, begünstigt jedoch zugleich...

In the context of growing worldwide inequality, it is important to know what happens when the demand for low-skilled workers changes. Because natural resource shocks are global in nature, but have highly localized impacts on labor prospects in resource extraction areas, they offer a unique...