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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| Main Author: |
Sopraseuth, Thepthida
Langot, Francois Hairault, Jean-Olivier Ménard, Sébastien |
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| Format: | Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
01.03.2009 |
| Related: |
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
| Data of publication: | 2009/03 |
| Series: |
IZA Discussion Papers |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
| Database: | RePEc RePEc IDEAS Database information Databases - DBIS |