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Theme 1: Labour market issues

This theme focuses on the concern of European policy makers to raise the labour-force participation of elderly workers. This is a core issue in micro-economic research, but health, psychological and social factors also play a role. 

Sub-themes and authors (provisional):

  • Employment at older ages - supply and demand factors
    Brendan Whelan, Amilcar Moreira and Asghar Zaidi
  • Pension systems and human capital
    Bas Jacobs and Lans Bovenberg
  • Labour force participation of older workers
    Arthur van Soest

The workshop will be held in Dublin (IE) on Friday 14 November 2008.

 

Theme 2: Income security of an ageing population

This topic includes everything related to defined-benefit and defined-contribution pension systems, intergenerational risk sharing, individual decisions on pensions and other retirement savings (e.g., portfolio choice, housing), consumption patterns before and after retirement, decisions to annuitize or not, financial knowledge, etc. The disciplines providing insights on this are mainly micro-economics, finance, psychology, and public policy. Health plays a role through the financial risks of health shocks and health (and work disability) insurance.

Sub-themes and authors (provisional):

  • Adequacy of saving for old age
    Elsa Fornero
  • Risk and portfolio choices
    Christian Gollier
  • Financial institutions and innovative products
    Lans Bovenberg and Theo Nijman

The workshop will be held in Turin (IT) on Friday 19 September 2008.

 

Theme 3: Well-being of the elderly

This theme comprises not only economic well-being (which is obviously related to the second theme also), but is also driven by family contacts and other social networks and inter- and intra-generational transfers, time use and satisfaction with daily activities (including paid work and volunteer work), social exclusion, physical and mental health (and health behaviour and prevention), availability of formal and informal long-term care, and other aspects of the health care system.

Sub-themes and authors (provisional):

  • Old age, health, long term care
    Alberto Holly

  • Social productivity and well-being
    Johannes Siegrist and Morten Wahrendorf

  • Social networks
    Martin Kohli and Harald Künemund

  • Regulation of psycho-social well-being
    Dieter Ferring and Pascalina Perrig-Chiello 

The workshop will be held in Lausanne (CH) on Friday 24 October 2008.

 

Final Conference

The conference will be held in Amsterdam (NL) on Wednesday 22 April 2009.  More details will be forthcoming in due course.

 

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