Although there have been many reviews of the retirement literature in recent years, the issue
of retirement timing has received less attention, neglecting some large and important issues …

Extensive information is available from official statistics and descriptive studies on the
association between different socio-demographic background factors and sickness …

Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and
economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work …

This paper studies a targeted program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment
benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks in Austria. Sharp discontinuities in treatment …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and other forms of discourse analysis are regularly used to
study identity, but rarely do researchers systematically compare and contrast them with other …

We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our sample consists of male
workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement …

Life cycle employment of minority labor migrants who entered Norway in the early 1970s
diverges from that of natives. Immigrant employment was nearly complete during early years …

In this paper we analyse early retirement for men and women focusing on family
characteristics such as marital status, spouse's income and wealth, and spouse's labour …

Aims: The association between a low socioeconomic position and disability retirement is
established in the literature, but the interrelationships between various subdomains of …

Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure
data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian …