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The ESoPS Chair

Embedded within the Institute of Economic and Social Administration (IAES) and supported by the Fondation Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, the ESoPS Chair combines academic research, professional expertise, and education to better analyse the current transformations of the social world.

Committed to breaking down disciplinary boundaries and to addressing the complexity of mechanisms at the intersection of the social economy and social protection, the Chair adopts an interdisciplinary and cross-risk approach in order to provide relevant and cross-functional answers to the challenges of protecting individuals.

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health, health-care consumption, pension reform, retirement age

The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game

11 May 2023

Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. ...

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19 October 2023

Symposium « Pensions and Ageing »

On the 19th and 20th of October, 2023, the third edition of the international symposium "Retraite et Vieillissement, Retirement and Aging" will be organised by the Social Policy Division of Caisse des Dépôts, the ESoPS Chair of Fondation Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Institut des Politiques Publiques.

Who we are

The ESoPS (Social Economy, Protection and Society) academic Chair is led by researchers from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specialists of the Third Sector (encompassing non-profit and cooperative organizations) and the Welfare State in the fields of employment, retirement, health, or family. It is structured around a Scientific Committee with leading international figures, responsible for guiding the research program, and a Partners’ Committee comprising players in the field of social protection.

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Ours Commitments

Solidarity

Solidarity lies at the heart of social protection and social economy. The aim of our work is to deepen our understanding of the solidarity mechanisms in order to provide fairer protection for individuals.

Interdisciplinarity

Our work favors a cross-cutting approach that breaks down disciplinary boundaries, aiming to address the fields of social protection and the social economy in all their complexity, and provide integrative responses to the intertwined problems they raise.