retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of …

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

retirement and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of prime …

unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage … society. We find that lowering the pension replacement rate and increasing the retirement age can have strong labor market … effects. They strengthen labor supply both in terms of job search intensity, leading to lower unemployment rates, and hours …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …