The French Pension System

The article presents an insight into the old age pension system in France. There are three topic paragraphs: 1 the evolution of its pension system, 2. the present situation, and 3. challenges and foreseen changes. There, the author’s goal was to present both past and present solutions employed by the French pension system, in search for ideas worth consideration in international comparisons. In the summary, the author highlights as a particular French approach, on the background of other countries is existing of the gender equilibrium of the retirement age.