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Ageing and Welfare Systems: What Have we Learned?
A Comparative EU-US Perspective |
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January 24-25, 2003 |
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Brussels |
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January 24 |
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| Welcome |
Guy Quaden |
National Bank of Belgium |
9:30 |
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Daniel Gros |
CEPS |
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| Opening Adress |
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9:45 |
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| AGEING, LABOUR MARKETS AND MIGRATION IN AN ENLARGING EU |
Session 1 |
10:00 - 11:15 |
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Lionel Fontagné |
CEPII |
Chairman |
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| Immigration: Panacea or Danger for the EU? |
Tito Boeri |
University of Boconi, Milano |
Speaker |
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| Fewer Young People: Less Unemployment? |
Juan Jimeno |
FEDEA, Madrid |
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Contributed papers (parallel sessions) |
11:15 - 13:00 |
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| 1. The Impact of Enlargement, Ageing and the Labour Market |
Karl Pichelmann |
European Commission, DG Economic and Financial Affairs |
SESSION A |
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| 2. Demographic Evolutions and Unemployment: an Analysis of French Labour Markets with Workers Generations |
Jean Chateau
Jean-Louis Guérin
Florence Legros |
CEPII |
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| 3. The Influence of Wage and Unemployment Differentials on Labour Mobility in the EU: A Meta-Analysis |
Sjef Ederveen
Nick Bardsley |
CPB |
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| 4. Immigration and the Dutch Economy: Labour Market Effects |
Rob Euwals
Hans Roodenburg |
CPB |
SESSION B |
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| 5. Migration and Regional Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks in Transition Economies |
Jan Fidrmuc |
ECARES
Université Libre de Bruxelles |
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| 6. Migration Policy, Irregular Migration and Aging in the Welfare State |
M. Alofs |
University of Antwerpen |
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| SUSTAINABILITY OF WELFARE SYSTEMS |
Session 2 |
14:30 - 16:30 |
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Henk Don |
CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis |
Chairman |
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| Budgetary Costs of Ageing |
Henri Bogaert |
Belgian Federal Planning Bureau |
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| Martin Werding |
IFO, Munich |
Discussant |
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| Scenarios for Health Care Systems in an Ageing Society |
Erika Schulz |
DIW, Berlin |
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| Howard Oxley |
OECD Economics Department |
Discussant |
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Contributed papers (parallel sessions) |
16:30 - 18:30 |
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| 7. How will we Provide and Pay for Long-Term Care? |
Bernard Casey |
LSE |
SESSION C |
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| 8. Ageing and Pensions in the Euro Area. Survey and Projection Results |
P.C. Rother
M. Catenaro
G. Schwab |
ECB |
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| 9. Macroeconomic Consequences of Pension Reforms in Europe: an Investigation with the Ingénue Model |
Equipe Ingénue |
CEPII |
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| 10. Population Ageing, Electoral Behaviour and Early Retirement |
Florence Legros |
CEPII |
SESSION D |
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| 11. Assessing the Political Sustainability of Parametric Social Security Reforms: The Case of Italy |
Marcello D'Amato
Vicenzo Galasso |
University of Salerno
IGIER, University of Boconi and CEPR
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January 25 |
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| WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM RESEARCH ON AGEING? A COMPARATIVE EU-US PERSPECTIVE |
Session 3 |
9:00 - 10:45 |
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Daniel Gros |
CEPS |
Chairman |
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| What Have we Learned in Europe? |
Richard Blundell |
University College of London |
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| Timothy M. Smeeding |
Center for Policy Research |
Discussant |
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| What Have we Learned in the US? |
Robert J. Willis |
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
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| Arie Kapteyn |
Tilburg University
Rand Corporation
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Discussant |
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Contributed papers |
10:45 - 11:45 |
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| 12. Demographic Risks and Uncertainty |
Juha Alho |
Jonsuu University, Finland |
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| 13. Behavioural Sclerosis and the Future of the Welfare State |
Bengt-Arne Wickström |
DIW |
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| SCANNING THE FUTURE: WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW? |
Roundtable |
11:45 - 13:30 |
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Richard Blundell |
University College, London |
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Robert J. Willis |
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
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Axel Börsch-Supan |
University of Mannheim |
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Fiorella Kostoris Padoa-Schioppa |
ISAE, Rome |
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Alan Walker |
University of Sheffield
Member of the Steering Group of the European Forum on Population Ageing Research |
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Timothy M. Smeeding |
Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
Luxembourg Income Study |
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