unemployment rate, their participation and employment rates are very low: 34% and 32%, respectively. We analyse whether this is due … of old-age benefits increases the probability of outflow from unemployment to inactivity, as do unemployment rate changes … more likely to leave the workforce compared to those who receive either unemployment benefits or social welfare benefits. …

market than unemployment or social welfare beneficiaries. Our findings support higher retirement age-the age when workers …

. These unemployment gaps cannot be explained by occupational sorting or other observable characteristics. …

world) and the limited scope of the country’s unemployment insurance scheme, there appears to be ample room for a female … added worker effect as a household strategy against unemployment shocks under economic crises. Using micro data from … household labor force surveys for the 2004-10 period, we examine the extent to which an unemployment shock to the primary male …

's unemployment. However the effect is not contemporaneous; it appears with a quarter of lag and remains existent only for two …