Research

Under review

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• Can I Stay or Should I Go? Mandatory Retirement and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers,
  [Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Public Economics]

  • Abstract
    Retirement is commonly described as a pure labor-supply decision, despite the potential importance of the demand side. This partly reflects that the two dimensions are often difficult to disentangle. I here manage to overcome this difficulty by using a unique natural experiment, the progressive ban on mandatory retirement in France in the 2000s.
    Drawing on an extensive administrative dataset, I use reform-induced inter-industry variations in mandatory-retirement legislation, thereby separating this factor from other retirement determinants, such as financial incentives. I find that the demand-side determinants through mandatory retirement do affect retirement patterns: the exit rates from employment are estimated to be 10% higher when mandatory retirement is possible. This effect is mostly driven by individuals with high earnings, steep wage profiles and good health. Second, as the mandatory-retirement age coincides with the full-rate age, I reveal a previously unexamined determinant of the bunching in retirement distribution at this age. Mandatory retirement is estimated to explain 12% of the observed spike at the full rate
  • Working paper available here

Working papers

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• The Effects of Increasing the Normal Retirement Age: Evidence From the Netherlands,
  with Tilbe Atav and Egbert Jongen

  • Abstract
    We evaluate the effect of reforms in the o cial retirement age in the Nether- lands (AOW age) on the labour supply and enrollment in social insurance of older workers. The AOW increased stepwise from 65 in 2013 to 65 and 9 months in 2017 (end of the data period). As a result, individuals are subjected to different retirement ages depending on their month of birth. We exploit this variation between birth cohorts using a differences-in-differences approach. Using administrative data from 1999 to 2017 we find that for the affected cohorts the employment rate increases by 16 percentage points during the additional working age months. Furthermore, we find that individuals on unemployment and disability insurance remain in their state longer, but there is hardly any direct substitution towards UI and DI from employment.
  • [Draft available on request]

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• Incentives and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers: Evidence from France,
  with Antoine Bozio, Maxime Tô and Julie Tréguier

  • Abstract
    This paper estimates the impact of financial incentives on retirement decision in France for cohorts of men retiring between 1994 to 2012. During these two decades, a number of reforms of the pension system took place, all aiming to achieve financial balance in a context of increasing life expectancy. These reforms strengthened incentives to retire later, either by offering more actuarially fair increase in pension for later retirement or by increasing early and normal retirement ages. This paper aims to assess how much these financial incentives and age references did contribute to the recent increase in employment rates of older workers.
  • [Draft available on request]

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• Unemployment Effects of Raising the Pension Age: Evidence From French Reforms,
  with Julie Rochut
  [Draft available on request]

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Early stage research

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• Optimal management rules for a retiring system with defined returns ?,
  with Antoine Bozio, Audrey Rain and Maxime Tô

• Retirement behaviour in the French private sector,
  with Benjamin Belrhomari, Chloé Lallemand, Lamia Kandil and Maxime Tô

• Dynamiques de carrière dans la fonction publique hospitalière,
  with Christophe Dorin, Anthony Marino and Laurent Soulat

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• Tax Evasion in the Netherlands: Evidence from Tax Amnesty Reforms,
  with Wouter Leenders, Arjan Lejour and Maarten van’t Riet

• Globalisation and Income Inequality in the Netherlands,
  with Rob Euwals, Stefan Groot, Harro van Heuvelen, Gerdien Meijerink and Jan Möhlmann

• Lost in Globalisation: Discontent in the Netherlands,
  with Evelien Boonstoppel, Paul Dekkers and Rob Euwals

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