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Towards More Inclusive Ageing and Employment Policies: The Lessons from France, The Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland

Anne Sonnet (anne.sonnet@oecd.org), Hilde Olsen (hilde.olsen@oecd.org) and Thomas Manfredi (thomas.manfredi@oecd.org)

De Economist, 2014, vol. 162, issue 4, 315-339

Abstract: Many countries have carried out over the past decade a series of reforms and measures to encourage longer working lives and to respond to the looming challenges of rapid population ageing. But have these steps gone far enough and have the necessary measures been taken? Much of the focus of this policy action has been on old-age pension reform but, as stressed in the report Live Longer, Work Longer (OECD 2006 ), a more comprehensive set of reform may be necessary to encourage work at an older age. This includes policy action in three broad areas to: (1) reward work, (2) change employer practices, and (3) improve the employability of workers. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of recent policy initiatives to give older people better work incentives and choices implemented in France, The Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland since 2006 as well as to identify areas where more could be done, covering both supply-side and demand-side aspects. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Older workers; Retirement incentives; Labour supply; Labour demand; OECD; H55; J21; J26; J23; J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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