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Financial incentives to postpone retirement. Estimating the impacts of the 2003 French pension reform on the employment and wages of older workers by using a lifetime job search model

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  • Sarah Le Duigou
  • Bérangère Legendre
  • Mareva Sabatier

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This article analyses whether financial incentives to delay retirement affect the employment and wages of older workers, not just their retirement behavior. We focus on the outcomes of France?s 2003 reform that offered pension bonus to older workers who postponed their retirement until the legal age. An equilibrium search model is built in which both employment and wage are endogenous, allowing us to analyze the role of both labor supply and demand in the retirement decision. Simulations of the model show that some firms choose to post higher wages to induce their workers to work longer. Thanks to a higher retention, firms save recruitment and training costs. Finally, demand-side considerations can attenuate the impacts of financial incentives that cause wage increases and too few new jobs.

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  • Sarah Le Duigou & Bérangère Legendre & Mareva Sabatier, 2020. "Financial incentives to postpone retirement. Estimating the impacts of the 2003 French pension reform on the employment and wages of older workers by using a lifetime job search model," Revue de l'OFCE, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 0(6), pages 321-344.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:reofsp:reof_170_0321
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