Population Ageing, Dependency and Overeducation

This book analyzes the problem of population ageing
in terms of the cessation of professional activity
(and especially premature labour market withdrawals)
and non-medical care needs of persons who are
dependent or have lost their autonomy, in order to
provide the various public and private
administrations active in these fields with some
food for thought.

One of my concerns is to examine the factors liable
to explain early exits from the labour market by
positing that labour demand may have an impact on
decisions to stop work early.

The chapter on Overeducation is devoted to testing a
series of theoretical results encountered in the
economic literature including the trade-off between
education and experience in the labour market.

I also present the long-term care insurance in
Belgium and project the level of dependency in 2050.
Based on the regional projections obtained, I
estimate the budgetary cost of introducing
dependency insurance in Wallonia identical to that
of Flanders (beginning at the same time as the
latter and undergoing the same changes).