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 … interruptions. Second, we determine how pension rights for French employees are affected by different career accidents. We consider …

calls a “return spring”—a mechanism in which the pension yield is lowered in relation to a desired contribution rate. This …, while NDC maintains the principle of social cohesion in public pension schemes. …

I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France … working part time in Germany exceeds that in France among married women and among women with children, while there is hardly …

policies in France. Finally we show that the age-dynamics of employment is optimal when the Hosios condition holds and we …

This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions … bias the evaluation of pension reforms when they have an impact on the equilibrium interest rate. -- overlapping …

This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions … bias the evaluation of pension reforms when they have an impact on the equilibrium interest rate …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …

As most developed countries, France has gone over the last 20 years through a process of pension system reforms, mainly … aiming at increasing the average retirement age, through increasing the required number of contribution years or through … postponing legal (minimal and/or normal) ages. Public debates over which lever should be preferred have been paramount in France …

of the marginal actuarially fair incentives in case of postponed retirement. Social Security then faces a trade …-off between giving enough incentives to make individuals actually delay retirement and giving little increase in pensions in order …. Furthermore, we analyze the interactions between wealth and retirement behavior …