Description
Ageing populations pose common challenges worldwide, as longer life expectancy, lower fertility, and changing labour force compositions are putting sustained pressure on social protection systems, including public pensions, health care, and social care. At the same time, tensions emerge between fiscal sustainability, intergenerational fairness, and the distributional consequences of policy reforms. In Luxembourg, as elsewhere, pension reform debates increasingly centre on how to balance these competing objectives while also maintaining social legitimacy and public trust.
This workshop, jointly organized by the (LIS)2ER Initiative and the SHARE Project Country Team within LISER, aims to provide a platform to share innovative research on socioeconomic inequalities in old age across Europe and beyond, and to discuss socially sustainable and feasible policy solutions for ageing societies. The programme features five thematic sessions, comprising ten academic presentations that explore the social, economic, and behavioural dimensions of ageing, health, retirement, and well-being. The wide range of topics covered includes social ties, intergenerational effects, retirement savings, and wealth, across diverse country contexts.
The event will conclude with a Policy Roundtable – Shaping the Future: The Acceptability of Pension Reforms, moderated by Philippe Liégeois (LISER). Pension reforms are largely seen as necessary, but their acceptability remains a key challenge, shaped by intergenerational fairness, uncertainty in long-term projections, and political constraints. This round table takes a more policy-oriented view, examining how reforms are designed, but also received beyond academic analysis. Panelists will share insights from their fields, with a special focus on pensions, before engaging in a collective discussion.
Agenda
The workshop provisional agenda can be found here.
Registration
To register for the workshop, please fill in the registration form here.
Organizing committee
- Alessio Fusco (LISER)
- Kun Lee (LIS, LISER)
- Teresa Munzi (LIS)
- Eugenio Peluso (LISER)
- Maria Noel Pi Alperin (LISER)
- Philippe Van Kerm (LIS, University of Luxembourg)
