2003er Rentenreform ist das erhoffte Sinken der Arbeitslosigkeit, das eine Steigerung der Beschäftigungsquote der Älteren … Alterssicherungssystems in Frankreich, der es uns erlaubt den Inhalt der Rentenreform von 1993 vorzustellen, analysieren wir, in einem zweiten …Im Laufe der letzten fünfzehn Jahre sind in Frankreich zwei wichtige Reformen der Basisrentensysteme (1993 und 2003 …

complexity of age management in France. The low participation of French older workers in the labour market was the result of … premature exclusion, within a context of high unemployment and industrial restructuring. Discrimination concerning access to …

are tremendous. As the baby boom generation grows older, it is doubtful that ever-longer retirement will continue to be …). Nevertheless, as today's workers evaluate their own retirement security, and as policymakers and business leaders assess the … workers constitutes a crucial issue for the Member States of the EU and for France in particular where less than 37% of …

In 1982, the French socialist government lead by Pierre Mauroy reduced the legal age of retirement for both men and … the Thomas Act that introduced retirement savings plan, but the law was never enforced because of the political change in …

Earlier studies conclude that spouses time their retirement closely together. Here, we exploit early retirement age … legislation to identify the effect of own and spousal retirement on spouses' hours of work. The sample for the analysis includes … over 85000 French couples. We conclude that hours of work fall significantly upon own and partner's retirement, for both …

upon retiring. Exploiting the law on early retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify …The economic litterature on retirement argues that individuals in a couple tend to retire at a choice time because of … the causal effect of retirement on hours of leisure, separate and together, of the man and woman in a couple. We use a …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … for a job. This is because of the short time-horizon of workers close to retirement. We propose to introduce a pension tax …

fall during a cycle into a Keynesian unemployment state. In that case, cycle dynamic is broken because wages are squeezed …

much more efficient than the private agency. Moreover, the level of the unemployment benefits is a disincentive to manage … agency to manage a worker having some low probabilities to exit from unemployment. If these conditions are satisfied, the … existence of private employment agencies improve the labor market through shorter unemployment spells and a lower unemployment …