This paper examines the main determinants of the decision to retire from the labor market in OECD countries, and in particular the role of social security systems in driving down the labor-force participation rate of older people in recent decades. It demonstrates that old-age pension systems in...

The increasing literature on the interactions between liberalisation-integration of product markets and labour market reforms is often highly speculative and draws on a rather weak empirical basis.Cross-country indicators of regulatory frameworks are often lacking, making it difficult to...

This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more-and more productive and rewarding-jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's...