This paper explores the links between unemployment, retirement and their associated public insurance programs. The analysis combines the development of a life-cycle model of search and retirement with a detailed exploration of the empirical regularities using a Spanish administrative data-set...

In this paper we analyze the sensitivity of the labour market decisions of workers close to retirement with respect to the incentives created by public regulations. We improve upon the extensive prior literature on the effect of pension incentives on retirement in two ways. First, by modeling...

Recent pension reforms in Spain have been guided by two opposite goals, achieving financial stability and improving redistributive aspirations. In particular, reforms implemented in 1997/2002 entailed a mixture of both through (i) changes in the pension formula, (ii) the extension in the...

All around the world , developed countries have resorted to parametric reforms of their Social Security systems, in an attempt to lessen the impact of the population aging. In particular, pension formulae have been modified to reduce the generosity of the systems and to induce longer working...

This paper explores the links between unemployment, retirement and their associated public insurance programs. It is a contribution to a growing body of literature focused on a better understanding of the labor behavior of advanced—age workers, which has gained importance as the pension crisis...

In this paper a new approach of the Markowitz's model is presented. Indeed, using an inner product, a quantitative and explicit solution for optimal portfolio selection is given. To do this, a scalar product is defined in which allows us to calculate the composition of the optimal portfolio and...

En este trabajo se pretende mostrar la existencia de componentes estructurales en la contratación temporal, para ello, se pone de manifiesto, en primer lugar, que la tasa de fallo de los Contratoss Temporales se ajusta a una curva de bañera y, por lo tanto, es susceptible de serle aplicada la...