Ageing and Employment Policies: France 2014
Working Better with Age
People today are living longer than ever before, while birth rates are dropping in the majority of OECD countries. In such demographics, public social expenditures require to be adequate and sustainable in the long term. Older workers play a crucial role in the labour market. Now that legal retirement ages are rising, older workers will work longer and employers will have to retain them. But those older workers who have lost their job have experienced long term-unemployment and low probabilities to return to work. What can countries do to help? How can they give older people better work incentives and opportunities? How can they promote age diversity in firms? This report offers analysis and assessment on what the best policies are for fostering employability, job mobility and labour demand at an older age in France.
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Foreword
In a context of rapid population ageing, giving older people better work incentives and choices is crucial for promoting economic growth and improving the sustainability of public social expenditures. The OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee accordingly decided in 2011 to carry out a new review of policies to encourage greater labour market participation at an older age by fostering employability, job mobility and labour demand. That review builds upon previous work that the OECD has conducted in this area in the Ageing and Employment Policies series, as summarised in its major multi-country report, Live Longer, Work Longer, published in 2006.
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