Workshop “Unequal ageing: life-expectancy, care needs and reforms to the welfare state”, May 28
The Paris School of Economics is pleased to invite you to the closing conference of the Pensineq project, entitled “Unequal ageing: life-expectancy, care needs and reforms to the welfare state” and co-organised by the Pôle retraites of the Institut des politiques publiques (IPP).
- Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024, from 09:00
- Venue: Paris School of Economics
48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris, room R2-01
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Presentation of the workshop
This event is the culmination of a three-year research project based on an analysis of data and reforms from five countries in North America, Northern and Western Europe: Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The research teams mobilised in each of these countries began by documenting changes in inequalities among the elderly, between rich and poor or between men and women, for example, across successive generations. The researchers then looked at the effects of the public policies implemented in recent years in the health and social care sector, in order to determine whether these policies, implemented in a context of severe budgetary pressure, have tended to reduce or accentuate these inequalities.
The results will be presented throughout the day, then discussed with a number of institutional leaders at a final round table.
- Download the detailed programme (PDF - 1,59 Mo)
Programme
09:00 - Welcome and introduction
Part I. Life-expectancy inequality and pension reforms
9:15-9:45 - The Evolution of the Income Gradient in Life Expectancy 1962-2021 by Johannes Hagen (Jönköping International Business School), Lisa Laun (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy), Charlotte Lucke (Stockholm University) and Marten Palme (Stockholm University)
9:45-10:00 - Discussion by Torben Heien Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
10:00-10:30 - Why does raising the early retirement age increase employment? by Courtney Coile (Wellesley College), Jonathan Cribb (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Carl Emmerson (Institute for Fiscal Studies) and Laurence O’Brien (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
10:30-10:45 - Discussion by Andreas Haller (Norwegian School of Economics)
Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 - Differential Mortality and Lifetime Redistribution in the Pension System by Aurel Mélard (IPP), Simon Rabaté (IPP) and Maxime Tô (IPP)
11:45-12:00 - Discussion by Johannes Spinnewijn (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Buffet lunch
Part II. Health inequality and long-term care
13:30-14:00 - The effect of migration on careers of natives: evidence from long-term care by Peter Haan (Freie Universität Berlin) and Izabela Wnuk (Berlin School of Economics)
14:00-14:15 - Discussion by Sarah Signorelli (CREST)
14:45-15:00 - Long-term care by Tammy Schirle (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Kevin Milligan (The University of British Columbia)
14:15-14:45 - Discussion by Marianne Tenand (Centraal Planbureau)
Coffee Break
Part III. Policy round-table: Policy implication for pension design of life-expectancy differential
15:30-16:00 - Cross-country evidence on life-expectancy gradient
16:00-18:00 - Cross-country evidence on life-expectancy gradient Life-expectancy and health inequality for designing pension reform
Policy round-table chaired by Antoine Bozio Antoine Bozio (PSE, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, IPP)
- Cathy Payne, Deputy Director, Department for Work and Pensions (UK)
- Ole Settergren, Head of the Analysis Department, Swedish Pensions Agency
- Franck von Lennep, Conseiller maître at Cour des comptes (France)
- Johannes Spinnewijn (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Cocktail
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