Even in countries with greater experience of active labour policies, the likelihood of an unemployed worker finding a job through an employment centre is not high: in 2016, the proportion in France and Germany was 7 per cent.
Nevertheless, people in their sixties need to learn how to extend the life of the assets they have accumulated, especially as they can now expect to live another 20 to 30 years, or even more as we look ahead to a normal life span of 100 years.