Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Joint with: Jean-Olivier Hairault, EUREQua, University of Paris I CEPREMAP and IZA, Francois Langot, GAINS, University of Le Mans,CEPREMAP a

This paper extends the job creation - job destruction approach to the labor market to take into account the life-cycle of workers. Forward looking decisions about hiring and firing depend on the time over which to recoup adjustment costs. The equilibrium is typically featured by

increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age, and a hump-shaped age-dynamics of employment. The empirical plausibility of the model is assessed by incorporating existing age-specific labor market policies in France. Finally we show that the age-dynamics of

employment is optimal when the Hosios condition holds and we design the optimal agepattern for employment policies when this condition does not apply.

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