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Forward Look Project of the European Science Foundation
“Ageing, Pensions and Health”
Goal: help to shape the European research agenda in the next 10 years
Lans Bovenberg, Arthur van Soest
Scientific and Policy Relevance
Policy: turn ageing from threat into an opportunity• Lisbon agenda: Europe leading the world• Protect human resources• Encourage financial and social innovation• Reinvent retirement, health care, income provisions
Research: exploit European diversity to our advantage • To uncover causal links• To create European Research Area (ERA): links across
countries and disciplines• To stimulate mobility of researchers and ideas
This implies a need for data and other infrastructures
Five Fields Studying Overlapping Sets of Issues:
• Micro-economics of ageing• Sociology and psychology of ageing• Health economics• Finance• Public policy & macro-economics
In this Forward Look, insights from these disciplines are combined and research topics are addressed from several disciplines
Three Broad Themes
• Point of departure: decisions at the micro level (individuals, households, firms, ….)
• Organized along three themes:
• Labour market issues• Income security at an older age• Well-being of the elderly
Activities of the Forward Look (1)
10 Commissioned papers (3-4 per theme) structured as follows:
• Policy questions
• Major progress in understandings
• remaining gaps in knowledge: main challenges
• current state of play of European research infrastructures and networks
• Required research infrastructures, methodological innovations, data, networks etc and consequences for research policy
• What (and when) can we deliver on policy questions?
• Length: between 7,500 and 10,000 words
Activities of the Forward Look (2)
Three workshops:
• Income security at an older ageTurin, September 19, 2008
• Well-being of the elderlyLausanne, October 24, 2008
• Labour market issuesDublin, November 14, 2008
Final Conference: The Hague, April 22, 2009
Final report (& perhaps, follow-up proposal(s))
Papers Theme 1 (Labour Market Issues):
“Employment at older ages - supply and demand factors,” Brendan Whelan, Amilcar Moreira and Asghar Zaidi
“Pension systems and human capital,” Bas Jacobs
“Labour force participation of older workers,” Arthur van Soest
Papers Theme 2 (Financial security):
“Adequacy of saving for old age,” Elsa Fornero, Annamaria Lusardi, Chiara Monticone
“Risk and portfolio choices,” Christian Gollier
“Financial institutions and innovative products,” Lans Bovenberg and Theo Nijman
Papers Theme 3 (Well-being of the elderly):
“Old age, health, long term care,” Alberto Holly
“Social productivity and well-being,” Johannes Siegrist and Morten Wahrendorf
“Social networks,” Martin Kohli & Harald Künemund
“Regulation of psycho-social well-being,” Dieter Ferring and Pascalina Perrig-Chiello