Career Interruptions of Seniors and Impact on the Pension Benefits - Abstract - The diversity of working life has an impact on retirement age and the pension benefits. Employment breaks like unemployment or parental leave will reduce earnings and pension benefits in the future. This paper...

The heterogeneity of private-sector career paths raises many problems for estimating future retirees’pensions, which are calculated according to complex rules. Using a projection model based on typical and weighted career profiles, we can grasp the mechanisms involved and assess intra- and...

La décision de partir en retraite fait intervenir de multiples facteurs dont il est difficile d’apprécier le caractère décisif. La connaissance des motifs de départ se pose avec une acuité particulière pour les individus qui, au terme de leur vie active, ont une durée d’assurance qui...

The aim of this article is to analyse the question of career interruptions and to evaluate their impact on pension retirement for French private sector workers. Using the last French survey on households' wealth (2003-2004), we first study the career set-backs for individuals born between 1937...

The recent period has highlighted a well-known phenomenon, namely the existence of a positive bias in experts’ anticipations. Literature on this subject underlines optimism in the financial analyst community. In this work, our significant contributions are twofold: we provide explanatory bias...

The evaluation of the reliability of analysts' earnings forecasts is an important aspect of research for different reasons: Many empirical studies employ analysts' consensus forecasts as a proxy for the market's expectations of future earnings in order to identify the unanticipated component of...