Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149344 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6257
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age resulting in permanent non-employability of older workers. We analyze this phenomenon in a putty-putty human capital vintage model and focus on education and the speed of human capital depreciation. Introducing a two-stage education system with initial schooling and lifelong learning, not even lifelong learning turns out to be capable of aligning economic and statutory retirement. However, well designed education programs will keep more workers in highly productive activities at the end of their working life, and hence will substitute for simple social transfers, or for an early switch towards very low paid jobs.
Subjects: 
lifelong learning
retirement
employability
education system
heterogeneous labor
biased technical change
JEL: 
J26
O33
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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