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

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

retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 for people born in 1950 …

a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise …

unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the … unemployment benefits for early retirement purposes. …

the inflow to and the outflow from unemployment. The REBP also induced a strong increase in early retirement and in many …