Introduction / Jean-Olivier Hairault and François Langot -- Horizon effect and older workers' employment : an examination of the French labour force survey / Jean-Olivier Hairault and François Langot -- The indirect impact of pension systems on employment prior to the minimal retirement age : a new estimation / Patrick Aubert -- Are employed workers more likely to retire? / Yarine Fawaz, Jean-Olivier Hairault, and François Langot -- Reforming the US Social Security system : accounting for employment uncertainty / Hugo A. Benitez-Silva, J. Ignacio García Pérez, and Sergi Jiménez-Martín.

"This volume examines the interaction of labour market conditions and retirement decisions. Based on French and US data, it provides empirical evidence and quantitative analysis of retirement and labor market flows. It studies the horizon effect and uses French individual data and probit models to show that the horizon effect does matter for the probability of being employed before the early retirement age. It analyses the influence of the retirement age on labour-market equilibrium, as well as the impact of labour market conditions, especially the importance of unemployment risk, on retirement decisions.:--