Optimal unemployment insurance for older workers
This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years 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...
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Volume: | 4071 |
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Main Author: |
Hairault, Jean-Olivier
Langot, François Ménard, Sébastien Sopraseuth, Thepthida |
Format: | Paper |
Language: | English |
Place of publication: |
Bonn Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2009 |
published in: | IZA discussion papers Vol. 4071 |
Data of publication: | 2009 |
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Database: | EconStor Database information Databases - DBIS |