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Population ageing and pressures on public finances have resulted in government pressing the extension of working lives. The economic crisis has meant that some people feel they cannot afford to retire but also that many employers are cutting back on their workforces. Bernard Casey will be giving a seminar on Wednesday 18 May 2011 as part of the University of 糖心TV in which he will provide insights into current research on issues relating to post-retirement-age working.

is a Principal Research Fellow in IER who works on the economic implications of societal ageing. He has been a senior economist at the OECD and is currently a consultant to the European Commission with respect to its proposed Year of Active Ageing. With Professor Noel Whiteside from the Department of Sociology at the University of 糖心TV, he authored an article for Parliamentary Brief (May 2011) entitled “The pensions web which Mr Webb has to unweave”.

Bernard Casey, from the Institute of Employment Research, will be presenting on ‘Active Ageing and Employment in Later Life’ at the Demography Network of the European Observatory on the Social Situation and Demography workshop in Brussels on 23 February.  He will be focusing on retirement ages, early retirement, later retirement and length of working life including fiscal consequences of working longer.

At the Labour Force Survey user meeting organised by the UK Economic and Social Data Service and held at the Royal Statistical Society in London at the start of December, Bernard Casey and Yuxin Li gave a presentation on working beyond retirement age.  They concentrated on methodological issues rather than on results, and tried to show what was possible from the Labour Force Survey and what was not.  Details of the event can be found at on the Economic and Social Data Service website. Bernard Casey and Yuxin Li’s presentation entitled  is available to download.

Bernard will be presenting on ‘Are we all Confucianists? Similarities and differences between European and East-Asian policies for care of the frail older people’ on 23 July 2010.  More information is available on the .