assess the impact of these benefits on the female employment rate in the context of a full life‐cycle model in which … (ii) significantly increase female employment throughout the life cycle, whereas reform (iii) has a very mild effect. The …

market outcomes. There has been no progress in shrinking the gender employment gap since 2009, and women, particularly … the age of eligibility for public pensions to life expectancy would boost growth by increasing employment of older … labour market spending have the potential to increase employment. …

For the last two decades, the increase of employment among individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the … European employment agenda. The present paper focuses on the case of Belgium, France, Germany, and The Netherlands over the … period 1997–2011. First, we provide descriptive analysis of older workers’ employment using data from the European Union …