Fairer ACTive AGeing for Europe (Belgium, Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain)
Summary and overall aim
FACTAGE aims to generate and disseminate findingsin responseto the following questions:
- How do levels in (healthy) life expectancy differ across socio-economic groups in EU countries?
- How do the pension and labour market policy measures designed to expand working lives (current and future) interact with these trends in mortality and healthy life expectancy?
- What role is played in that process bythe different institutional arrangementswithin EU member states?
- How dodifferential longevity gains and longer working careers affect (in)equality in the experience of ageing and well-being among older people?
- Which policies and institutional settings can best promote fairness within and between generations?
- And, at the same time further expand working lives?
FACTAGE starts from the premise that there is substantial scope for increasing the length of average working lives and active ageing in its many facets,but realising this potential requires paying careful attention to questions of equality concerning the elderly, not least prospectively. Furthermore, there is the fundamental issue ofhow to adapt the requirementto work longer with intergenerational distribution concerns. One core aim is to devise thenecessary tools and then to carry outa comparative assessment of differential mortality risks, health and labour market inequalities. The projectwill recommend evidence-based policy scenarios for an equitable allocation of labour and retirement across populations and generations.
Project details
FACTAGE participated in the first joint call on “Extended Working Life and its Interaction with Health, Wellbeing and beyond”.
Project duration and budget
Project duration: April 2016 – March 2019.
Project costs/requested funding: €904.429
Consortium
- Centre for European Policy Studies(CEPS), Belgium.
Mikkel Barslund (coordinator) - Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich, Austria.
Johannes Klotz - National Institute of Economic and Social Research, United Kingdom.
Lucy Stokes - University Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
Werner Sesselmeier - University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Amaia Bacigalupe