This paper presents a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence in favor of the view that the retirement age … decision impacts on the search intensity of older workers before this age. Countries with a retirement age at 60 are indeed … of employment is significantly affected by the distance from retirement, in addition to age and other relevant variables …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal–agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … for a job. This is because of the short time-horizon of workers close to retirement. We propose to introduce a pension tax …