PROGRAMME

 

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Plenary

9.00 - Welcome and opening remarks

9.15 - Keynote speaker presentation:        Inequalities in later life health and well-being: socio-economic and socio-demographic dimensions by Emily Grundy
(Room BES, 4th level)

 

10.15 – 10.30
Coffee Break

Sessions A

10.30 – 12.40
A1. Ageing and the Labour Market
(Room Delta, 3rd level)

Chair: Carlos Farinha

10.30 – 12.40
A2. The Economic Status of the Elderly
(Room IAPMEI, 3rd level)

Chair: Isabel Mendes

Title

Presenter

Title

Presenter

Work ability of persons in the older groups of productive age

Izabela Grabowska
(Poland)

The oldest old in the US by gender and poverty status in 2000

Sally Bould

(USA)

How late in life will the baby boomers continue to work?

Stewart Neufeld
(USA)

The economic status of elderly people in Lithuania

Daiva Skuciene
(Lithuania)

Older workers in High Performance Work Organization: evidence from Europe

Claudia Villosio
(Italy)

Understanding social exclusion in older age

Elizabeth Becker
(UK)

Spousal impact on labor force behaviour: new evidence for older married couples in Germany

Stefanie Neimann

(Germany)

Growing old and living longer: poverty and associated risks due to migration, disability and family nuclearization

James McNally

(USA)

Aging effects on labor supply in Croatia: the role of employers

Iva Tomic

(Croatia)

Retirement income adequacy in Portugal

Sara Paralta

(Portugal)

 

12.40 –14.00
Lunch Break

Sessions B

14.00- 16.10
B1. Intergenerational Transfers
(Room Delta, 3rd level)

Chair: João Peixoto

14.00- 16.10
B2. Policies affecting the elderly
(Room IAPMEI, 3rd level)

Chair: Rosa Borges

Title

Presenter

Title

Presenter

Family-to-work conflicts resulting from eldercare: findings from a large-scale empirical study of informal caregivers

Ulrike Schneider

(Austria)

Demographic change and interest intermediation in old age pension reforms: the role of unions as civil society protagonists in Germany and the Netherlands

Boris Krause  

(Germany)

Ageing and caring relations within the family: intimacy at a distance?

Ricardo Rodrigues

(Austria)

The provision of adequate retirement income: myths & the real economic and political challenges

Martin Watts

(Australia)

Informal care, insurance and intra-family moral hazard – evidence from France

Christophe Courbage
(Switzerland)

Medical and social care for elderly people in Bulgaria: economic considerations

Jasmine Pavlova
(Bulgaria)

Grandparents and labour market participation of mothers

Paula Albuquerque

(Portugal)

The domiciliary service as the form of social inclusion of the elderly people

Kateřina Kubačíková

(Czech Rep.)

Social security, familial support and the changing economic status of the elderly in Taiwan: 1976-2006

Cheng-Chung Jason Chuang

(Taiwan)

Measuring outcomes of care homes – experiences from England

Ann Netten
and Birgit Trukeschitz
(UK)

 

16.10- 16.30
Coffee Break

Sessions C

16.30- 18.40
C1. Senior Markets and the Demand for Goods and Services
(Room Delta, 3rd level)

Chair: Paula Albuquerque

16.30- 18.40
C2. Growth, Saving and Production in Ageing Societies
(Room IAPMEI, 3rd level)

Chair: José Pereirinha

Title

Presenter

Title

Presenter

Socio-economic aspects of advertising targeted at people at the age of over 65 years

Dobriana Sidjimova
(Bulgaria)

Aging population, ageism and long-term saving

Serge Macé

(France)

Business model for an ageing society: the approach adopted in MIDAS project

Leandro Loss

(France)

Ageing and endogenous growth in a small open economy with life cycle leisure, labour and learning

João Paulo Pereira

(Portugal)

Food security for seniors in Canada and Portugal: a cross-cultural comparison

 

Lawrence Becker

(Canada)

Evaluating significance of rural tourism performed by retiree farmers in Japan: from a perspective of multifunctional agriculture

 

Yasuo Ohe

(Japan)

Involving older people in the design of financial products and services

Carol Brennan

(UK)

A tale of two systems: winners and losers when moving from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions

Evert Carlsson

(Sweden)

Building the socio-economic business case for technological developments to support older people

Peter Lansley

(UK)

Sectorial impacts of demographic changes

João Carlos Lopes

(Portugal)