Didier Blanchet, CV and publications

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Main activities

I have been a researcher at the French National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) from 1978 to 1993. I moved to the French National Statistical Institute (INSEE) in 1993 where I have had the following positions :

  • 1993 to 1996 : Head of the Redistribution and Social Policies unit
  • 1996 to 1999 : Head, National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE)
  • 1999 to 2003 : Head, Department of Employment and Labour Income Statistics
  • Since 2003 : Head, Department of General Economic Studies
 

Other current or recent positions

  • Member of the French Pensions Advisory Committee (COR) (link)
  • Member of the Scientific Councils of INED and IRDES (Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics)
  • French Country Team Leader for the SHARE survey (Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) from 2003 to 2005 (link).
 

Main teaching activities

  • European Doctoral School of Demography, year 2007-2008.
  • Paris School or Economics, Graduate Program «  Analyse et Politique Economique », since 2008 (link).
  • Social protection financing, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Sécurité Sociale, since 2006
  • Economics of Social Protection, ENSAE, from 1998 to 2005.
  • Several teachings in the Graduate Program in Population Economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, from 1981 to 2001 (econometrics, demo-economic modelling, demography and social protection, research seminar)
 

Training

  • PhD in Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1989
  • ENSAE, 1978-1980.
  • Ecole Polytechnique, 1975-1978.
 

Research fields

  • Pension economics
    • General
    • Age at retirement, senior employment
    • The funding/PAYG debat
  • Employment and labour market
  • Economics of social protection
  • Microsimulation
  • Population economics
  • General population studies
 
Publications (English publications only, see French version for full bibliography)
 
Pension economics - General
 
« Pension reform in France : where do we stand ? », Intereconomics, vol 40, 5: 244-248, 2005.
« France : the difficult path to consensual reforms », in Social Security Pension Reform in Europe, M. Feldstein et H. Siebert, Eds, NBER/The University of Chicago Press: 109-127, 2002 (with F. Legros).
« Demographic trends and pensions : fifteen years of debate », Population and Societies, n° 383, 2002 (link)
« Pensions and generational histories in a simple demoeconomic model : the case of France », in Sharing the wealth : demographic change and economic transfers between generations, A. Mason et G. Tapinos Eds, Oxford University Press, 2000 (with J.A. Monfort)
 
Pension economics - Age at retirement, senior employment
 
« Social contract and age at retirement : some elements of a franco-american comparison », in Ages, generations and the social contract : the demographic challenges facing the welfare state, J. Veron, S. Pennec et J. Légaré, Eds, Springer, 2007 (with P. Aubert and D. Blau).
« Pathways to retirement » in Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe: first results from SHARE, A. Börsch-Supan et al. Eds, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging: 246-252, 2005 (with A. Brugiavini and R. Rainato).
« Estimating models of retirement behaviour on French data », in Social Security Programs and Retirement around the world, J. Gruber et D.A. Wise, Eds, NBER/The University of Chicago Press: 235-284, 2004 (with R. Mahieu).
« Social security and retirement in France », in Social security and retirement all around the world, J. Gruber et D. Wise, Eds, NBER/University of Chicago Press: 101-133, 1999 (with L.-P. Pelé)
 
Pension economics - The funding/payg debate
 
« Pension systems in transition economies : perspectives and choices ahead », Public Finance, vol. 47: 21-33, 1992 (with D. Kessler)
« Optimal pension funding with demographic instability and endogenous returns on investment », Journal of Population Economics, 4: 137-154, 1991 (with D. Kessler), reprinted in Fiscal Policy in an Aging Population, D. Bös and S. Cnossen Eds, Springer Verlag.
 
Economics of social protection
 
« Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers », in Handbook of Altruism and Reciprocity, S.C. Kolm and J. Mercier-Ythier, Eds, North-Holland, 2006 (with M. Fleurbaey)
« Immigration and social transfers : analytical issues and recent results », in Trends in International Migration, 1996 SOPEMI report, OECD (link)
« The demographic impact of family benefits : evidence from a micro model and from macro data » in The family, the market and the state in aging societies, J. Ermisch and N. Ogawa, Eds, IUSSP/Oxford University Press, 1994 (with O. Ekert).
 
Employment, labour market
 
« Does an aging labour force call for large adjustments in training or wage policies ? », in Labour markets in a aging Europe, P. Johnson and K. F. Zimmermann, Eds, CEPR/Cambridge University Press: 126-143, 1993
 
Microsimulation
 
« Microsimulating Supply/Demand Interactions on a Labour Market : the French Case », in New frontiers in microsimulation modelling, A. Harding, P. Williamson and A. Zaidi, Eds (with M. Barlet and T. Le Barbanchon) (forthcoming)
« Projecting Pensions and Retirement Age in France: some Lessons from the Destinie I Model », in New frontiers in microsimulation modelling, A. Harding, P. Williamson and A. Zaidi, Eds (with S. Le Minez) (forthcoming)
 
Population economics
 
« Estimating the impact of population growth on economic growth in LDCs : methodological problems » in Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries, G. Tapinos, D. Blanchet and D.E. Horlacher, Eds, Taylor and Francis, 1991.
« Population aging and French economic performance », in Aging Societies, B. Bosworth et G. Burtless, Eds: 111-147, Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
« On interpreting observed relationships between population growth and economic growth : a graphical exposition », Population and Development Review, 17, 1: 105-113, 1991.
« Population growth and income growth during the demographic transition : does a malthusian model help explain their relationship ? », Population, English selection, 1990
« Age structure and capital dilution effects in neo-classical growth models », Journal of Population Economics, 1: 183-194, 1988.
« A stochastic version of the malthusian trap model: consequences for the empirical relationship between demographic and economic growth in LDCs », Mathematical Population Studies, 1, 1988.
 
General population studies
 
« Changing life cycles and their impact on insurance », The Geneva Papers, 32: 1-10, 2007.
« Non linear demographic models and chaotic demo-dynamics », Population, n° Hors-serie, 1998. (link)
« A simple model for interpreting cross-tabulations of family size and women’s labour force participation », European Journal of Population, 9: 121-142, 1993 (with S. Pennec)
« Regulating the age structure of a population through migration », Population, English Selection, 1989.