Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France
Blanchet, Didier; Caroli, Eve; Prost, Corinne; Roger, Muriel (2017), Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France, in Wise, David A., Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, NBER : Cambridge, MA, p. 111-147
Type
Chapitre d'ouvrageExternal document link
10.3386/w22024Date
2017Book title
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older AgesBook author
Wise, David A.Publisher
NBER
Series title
NBER Book Series - International Social SecurityPublished in
Cambridge, MA
ISBN
978-0-226-44287-7
Number of pages
406Pages
111-147
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Blanchet, DidierCentre de Recherche en Economie et en Statistique [CREST-INSEE]
Caroli, Eve
Institute for the Study of Labor [IZA]
Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion des Organisations de Santé [Legos]
Prost, Corinne
Centre de Recherche en Economie et en Statistique [CREST-INSEE]
Roger, Muriel
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques [PSE]
Abstract (EN)
France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French labor participation rates over 50 is under way, partly due to the pension reforms that took place since 1993. The French ageing process is driven by large gains in life expectancy and Pension reforms allocate part of these gains to work rather than to retirement. The implicit assumptions guiding the reforms have been that additional years of life are years with a health status that can be considered reasonably compatible with work. If this is not the case, the idea of sharing these additional years of life between work and retirement is questionable. Considering mortality and health status, we question the fact that the reforms may have gone too far in increasing the retire...Subjects / Keywords
Health; France; Economics of the ElderlyRelated items
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