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"For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the evolution of older workers' employment in Belgium and its neighboring countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment and hours of work patterns for different age sub?groups (50?54, 55?59, 60?64) and provide evidence on their respective evolution. The results show that employment rates among older workers started to catch?up with employment rates of younger cohorts as of 2001, and with more acuity after 2006. This effect dominates the observed negative effect on hours of work and hence leads to an increase in total hours of work of the cohort – net of any purely demographic effects."

"Dans ce numéro de Regards économiques, nous présentons une mesure multidimensionnelle de la performance des Etats-providence de l'Union européenne. Cette mesure permet de comparer la performance des pays de l'Europe des 15 avec celle des 12 nouveaux membres; elle donne aussi la possibilité de tester l'hypothèse d'un éventuel dumping social; enfin elle peut être utilisée pour mieux appréhender la performance de la protection sociale de la Belgique et de ses composantes régionales. "