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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The labour market situation for older workers in France
The labour market situation for older workers in France has improved significantly over the past decade. However, there has been an increase in unemployment among older workers, due largely to the crisis but also to elimination of the provision that exempted the older unemployed from looking for work. This chapter uses international comparisons to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the employment situation for older people in France. It offers a scoreboard with some 20 comparative indicators for older workers during the past decade.
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