Abstract EN:

In 2005, according to the insee (french national institute of statistic and economic studies), economically active frenc h person out of two will be more than fourty years old. Nowadays, about 20 per cent of the total population is sixty yea rs old and a perceptible increase of the percentage of the elderly in the toal population is foreseen whereas the percentage of less than twenty years old never stops decreasing. The employment policies, the difficulties in the labour market, the falling of the retirement and early retirement ages lie at the roots of the marginalizing of the ageing workers, spoil the intercourse actives non actives and thus the retirement funding. The purpose of this work is to study the situation of the ageing workers (fifty to sixty four years olf) in the labour market. That is the reason why we will analyse : - the structure of the french population and the forecasting of its evolution, the causes of the demographic olding and its economic consequences; - the structure of the economically active population, of the ageing persons unemployment by measuring their inferiority in the labour market from the age, the unemployment lasting and the formation level; - the consequences for the economically active population of the falling of the retirement and early retirement age, the activity rate of the ageing workers, the funding of the retirements organization; the difficulties of the ageing workers which get worse with the introduction of new technologies, the discrimination the mobilities and the lacking of training and specific policies set out by the authorities