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 …

hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally. Drawing from a unique geo-referenced dataset of unemployment spells in the … unemployment duration, distinguishing between short- and medium-term effects. This is done by implementing an original two …