The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at “normal” retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French...

The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at “normal” retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French...

Un produit d'épargne retraite universel a été lancé en France en 2003, le Plan d'Epargne Retraite Populaire (PERP), dont l'objectif est de permettre aux ménages de compléter leur futur retraite. A l'aide de données issues d'une large enquête réalisée par TNS SOFRES en 2007 dont un...

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

Young labour-market entrants account for a high level of unemployment and short-term contracts. In July 2002, the French government moved to reduce this insecurity at the start of working life by introducing the Youth-in-business Contract (<italic>Contrat Jeune en Entreprise</italic>), a new contract for young...

[fre] Nous estimons, à partir de données administratives françaises , l’Échantillon Interrégimes des Retraités, la mortalité différentielle entre 1997 et 2001 de générations nées entre 1906 et 1930 selon le montant des pensions de retraite. La mortalité différentielle est...

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household’s location in the income distributions in determining its location in the wealth distribution. A...

In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and variable costs of search in which unemployed workers...