, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract as the … optimal contract that integrates unemployment insurance and retirement pension systems. -- Unemployment insurance ; retirement …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …

market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …