From French data, this paper uses a difference-in-differences approach combined with propensity score matching to identify the effect of an exogenous change in employment protection among older workers on firm’s incentives to provide training. Laying off workers aged 50 and above, French firms...

This paper studies the impact on personal income resulting from the onset of disability. Using the longitudinal Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we compare the incomes trajectories of individuals who become disabled and of those remaining in healthy conditions during the same...