An ageing population is a general demographic trend challenging economic sustainability in terms of employment and pensions as well as overall social cohesion and intergenerational solidarity. This article discusses 1) how to make people work until they reach pensionable age, 2) how to make...

Many countries all over the world have been facing the problem of deteriorating demographics, forcing reforms of the pension system model as well as its main parameters. An important perspective of the assessment of the financial sustainability of a pension system is the division of current GDP...

This study examines employers' behaviours and attitudes regarding the ageing of the population and the labour market in four different countries: the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece and the Netherlands. Four questions are addressed: to what extent is there a sense of urgency among employers...

In this paper, the authors build a comprehensive data set of the pension reforms legislated in the EU between 1990 and 2006. They classify the reforms in three broad classes: fundamental changes to the old-age scheme (i.e., changes in the way the pension system is financed and/or in the...