Bernard Casey made presentations at two recent events on issues relating to the employment of older people.

The first, entitled “The Employment of Older People in a Period of Stagnation and Deregulation” was prepared together with Atsuhiro Yamada from the Department of Economics at Keio University, and delivered at the latest ESRC Rethinking Retirement Seminar Series (University of Kent, 4 May). The presentation focused on older people’s employment in Japan over the past twenty years, looking at changing economic circumstances since the end of the bubble economy and the coming to retirement age of the post war baby-boomers. A copy of the presentation can be downloaded from here.

The second was a presentation on “Working Beyond Retirement: explaining a UK phenomenon” at the 7^th European Conference of the European Social Insurance Platform (Brussels, 23 May). Under the title "Active and Healthy Ageing and Solidarity between Generations - the role of social insurances", the event aimed to clarify the role of the social insurance in addressing the challenges and opportunities of societal ageing. Copies of the slides can be downloaded from here.

IER's Bernard Casey gave a presentation at the conference "The Cyprus Economy at a Time of European Uncertainty: Managing Reform and Sustainability", organised by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and held at LSE on 10-2-12. His talk on "The Fiscal Implications of Demographic Change" gave an overview of the challenges of addressing pension and care provision for Cyprus's ageing population. Other presenters at the event included the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Republic of Cyprus, Prof. Chris Pissarides, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics, the head of sovereign debt rating for Europe, Middle East and Africa from Standard & Poor's, experts from the World Bank and the European Commission and academics from the University of Cyprus.

Bernard will be speaking on ‘Provident funds in Cyprus – where they came from and where they might go?’ at the 18th Regional Social Insurance, Pension Fund and Provident Funds conference to be held in Nicosia (11-13 October).

Bernard Casey will be presenting at the SASE (Society for the Advancement of Social Economics) 23^rd Annual conference on Transformation of Contemporary Capitalism: Actors, Institutions, Processes. The conference will be held in Madrid on 23-25 June. Bernard’s paper is 'The implications of the economic crisis for pensions and pension policy in Europe'.

Bernard Casey is an invited discussant at the Netspar International Pension Workshop, which is to be held at CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Turin) Italy on 16-17 June. This workshop has been jointly organised by the Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) team and Elsa Fornero of CeRP.