training. Laying off workers aged 50 and above, French firms have to pay a tax to the unemployment insurance system, known as …

, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract. It is … show that the unemployment benefit agency could take advantage of the retirement period to tax pensions in order to …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …

This paper seeks to gain insights into the relationship between growth and unemployment in a setting with heterogeneous … the model to more closely match the estimated sensitivity of unemployment with respect to growth. When calibrated, the … unemployment for individuals receiving training, while it increases the unemployment rate of unskilled workers without training …

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment when considering heterogeneous … reduction in the unemployment rates, for unskilled workers not getting trained growth fosters a rise in the unemployment rates. …

- negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are mainly …