The Alpine Population Conference (Alp-Pop) brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology, and psychology. The conference emphasizes empirical rigor and innovation over a given topic...

The demographic development of many industrialized countries has motivated a tightening in public pension benefits and eligibility rules; confronted with less generous social security systems, senior citizens are asked to take active and complex decisions in order to guarantee their living...