Bruno Palier: Breaking Our Stereotypes of France, Retirement & Rebellion
On this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with Bruno Palier, Research Director at France’s elite Sciences Po University, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. The common government response to ageing societies around the world is to have people work longer. But ‘people’ aren’t always in agreement, nor are companies always willing to keep them. The French protests at raising the retirement age have been well covered by the international press, but not always well understood. Bruno Palier works on the comparative political economy of welfare state reforms. He…
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