competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the … evolution of job stability, the size of each labor market segment and the unemployment rates …

unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …

, 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. …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …

, 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 …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …

In France, the pattern of old age pension is characterized by a tax on continued activity, which distorts labour market … participation towards a retirement age far below the one that would prevail in an optimal environment. This tax on continued … activity would disappear with an actuarially fair system that links replacement rates to retirement age. However, by definition …