, 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. …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

of the marginal actuarially fair incentives in case of postponed retirement. Social Security then faces a tradeoff … between giving enough incentives to make individuals actually delay retirement and giving little increase in pensions in order …. Furthermore, we analyze the interactions between wealth and retirement behavior. …

into account distortions related to unemployment benefits and bargaining power shows the robustness of this result, in …

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 …

to the reference value around 4.5%. As a result of the policy, during the last ten years unemployment in France was twice …A linear and lagged relationship between inflation, unemployment and labor force change rate, π(t)=A0UE(t-t0)+A1dLF …. The relationship obtained for France is characterized by A0=-1, A1=4, A2=0.095, t0=4 years, and t1=4 years. For GDP …

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …

retirement before the termination of the contract. When retirement is an event which occurs exogenously and information is … workers who will retire early (the 'bad' workers) from applying for these jobs. Secondly, we endogenize the retirement … the 'bad' workers. These asymmetries in the information lead to an excess of retirement compared to the full information …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …