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 article discusses two recent reform proposals of the French pension system. Piketty and Bozio suggest the introduction of a unified system of individual notional accounts. This system would be automatically in balance, although at the cost of a dramatic fall in pensions’ levels, which...

According to several recent analyses, French pensioners benefit from tax expenditures of around €11 billion; abolishing these tax deductions would allow to finance pensions and long-term care expenditures. The paper shows that tax expenditures benefiting pensioners (€12.5 billion euro, i.e....

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...