Working Beyond 50
(2022) Handbook of Labor, Human ressources and Population Economics — ISBN: [978-3-319-57365-6], p. 1-23, published
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- This chapter reviews the works by economists on what it means to work beyond the age of 50. That question directly echoes the context of aging populations characterizing most advanced economies. Aging poses stark dilemmas for living standards and the sustainability of social protection schemes. From a policy point of view, what is key is offsetting the rising old dependency ratio. Several things could contribute to that, but the most likely one is lifting the employment rate, especially among workers aged 50-plus whose propensity to work is still below that of prime-age adults and where it was in a not-so-distant past. This chapter examines how the labor market for older workers has developed in advanced economies since the mid-1980s and the major factors at stake. A great deal of attention is paid to the different barriers to working after 50, where they originate from, and how better-designed and evidence-based policy might help overcome them.
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Vandenberghe, V. (2022). Working Beyond 50. In Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human ressources and Population Economics (p. p. 1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_286-1