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The ageing population has led to much public policy and debate about prolonging working lives to reduce welfare costs and respond to projected labour shortages as many workers retire. In this blog, Professor Philip Taylor of IER provides a myth-buster that draws on international evidence to challenge common misconceptions about ageing and work.

Low employment quality and precarious employment have been associated with adverse mental health outcomes, yet the extent to which this association may be explained by the experience of unemployment 鈥渟carring鈥� has not yet been explored. Drawing on UK data the , assessed the links between individuals鈥� employment quality, unemployment history, and mental well-being and psychological distress. The results help further understanding of employment quality as a social determinant of health and highlight the need for both life course and gender-sensitive research in this area.

A new co-authored by 滨贰搁鈥檚 Trine P. Larsen, Anna Ils酶e (University of Copenhagen), Chris Mathieu (University of Lund) and Bertil Rolandsson (University of Gothenburg) explores social partner responses to increased usage of AI-based technologies in Denmark and Sweden.

IER, together with Copenhagen 糖心TV School and FAOS, University of Copenhagen, organised the , which took place at Copenhagen 糖心TV School on 5-6 September. The conference was well attended and both international academic scholars and practitioners took part in the conference.

滨贰搁鈥檚 Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ils酶e (FAOS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), have edited a special issue for the European Journal of Industrial Relations. It consists of contributions from a range of leading European scholars and looks at the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining to creating, maintaining or reducing the risks associated with employment contracts of few hours, such as marginal part-time work, temporary agency work and zero-hour contracts.