The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at “normal” retirement … and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal … retirement. These routes have exempted French workers from massively relying on disability motives for early exits, contrarily to …

-linked insurance and pension products that have evolved concurrently with the steady increase in life expectancy since 1960s. In …

public deficits and inflationary pressures. The paper aims at discussing these new challenges. The inadequacy of inflation …

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 … June 1997, and was formally abrogated in 2002. Amazingly there seems be a 10 years cycle in French pension system reforms …

pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and …How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … reform of the French pension system, which was heterogeneously introduced among the population. With each cohort, the French …