Retirement pensions are directly linked to the insured person’s career: the duration and total of the salary subject to contributions. To summarise the heterogeneity of careers within the private sector into a restricted number of set profiles is therefore a «lightweight» futurology tool for...

Labour market segmentation is usually defined as the division of the labour markets into separate submarkets or segments, distinguished by different characteristics and behavioural rules (incomes, contracts, etc.). The economic debate on the segmentation issue has been focusing in developed...