Author: lwalker
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Healthy Ageing Trends in England Between 2002 to 2018: Improving but Slowing and Unequal
Growing life expectancy and a rising proportion of older people make the issue of whether cohorts are ageing better a key individual, social and economic issue. Using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing we characterise how frailty develops with age, how this differs across demographic groups, whether more recent cohorts are ageing better…
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Journal of the Economics of Ageing – The economics of longevity: An introduction
Global life expectancy now stands at 71 years compared with 30 years in 1870. This fact increases the need to understand how we age and how that impacts our economic decision making. It also raises the issue of how we should change our life cycle behaviours, policies and institutions to adapt to these longer lives.…
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Journal of Economics of Ageing: Special Issue of The Economics of Longevity
Global life expectancy now stands at 71 years compared with 30 years in 1870. This fact increases the need to understand how we age and how that impacts our economic decision making. It also raises the issue of how we should change our life cycle behaviours, policies and institutions to adapt to these longer lives.…
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Financial Times: We have to invest much more in our future selves
It isn’t easy to grow old gracefully — as many ageing countries are beginning to find out. In France, people have taken to the streets to protest against a rise in the state pension age. In Germany, the government is pushing through a major liberalisation of its immigration system because employers are “desperate” for staff…
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Washington Post: Age Friendly Jobs & Housing Market
““Age-friendliness is hard to define and measure — after all, workers of all ages would like to set their own schedule and avoid backbreaking physical activity. So how did economists Daron Acemoglu and Nicolaj Mühlbach of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Andrew Scott of London Business School pull it off? (Mühlbach, who worked at…
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Journal of the Economics of Ageing: The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs
In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to the preferences of older workers. We explore this by constructing an “age-friendliness” index for occupations. We use Natural Language Processing to measure the…
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Institute for Government Podcast
Andrew Scott discusses impact of demography on UK fiscal trends with Gemma Tetlow at the Institute for Government event on latest Office of Budget and Responsibility Fiscal Risks analysis (discussion on demography starts at 23 minutes).
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Survey
I am working with Daron Acemoglu and Nicolaj Muhlbach from MIT trying to understand the reason for, and implications of, the rising employment of older workers in the US. One aspect we are looking at it is whether jobs have become more “age friendly” e.g less physically demanding, less stressful, more flexible, more autonomy, etc.…
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Survey
I am working with Daron Acemoglu and Nicolaj Muhlbach from MIT trying to understand the reason for, and implications of, the rising employment of older workers in the US. One aspect we are looking at it is whether jobs have become more “age friendly” e.g less physically demanding, less stressful, more flexible, more autonomy, etc.…