for a job. This is because of the short time-horizon of workers close to retirement. We propose to introduce a pension tax … pension tax allows those workers near retirement who still do not exercise job search to smooth their consumption during their …

-free. Second, the short job duration before retirement implies that the budgetary return and search incentives associated with the …. Finally, even in the special case where search intensity is zero close to retirement, perfect risk-sharing across unemployment … and retirement is welfare-improving thanks to the pension tax. …

left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more decreasing replacement ratio. However …, 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 …