The Effects of Early Retirement on Youth Unemployment : The Case of Belgium /

In this paper, we describe the changes of (early) retirement programs over time and study the link between trends in elderly labor force participation and youth unemployment. From a theoretical point of view, there is no convincing argument that the idea of a lump-of-labor should hold. Our empirical...

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Автор: Pestieau, Pierre
Інші автори: Jousten, Alain, Lefebvre, Mathieu, Perelman, Sergio
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/030
Онлайн доступ:Full text available on IMF
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