Research about the causes and implications of inequality is ongoing, and this workshop aims at both providing some answers and promote further efforts. Understanding the roots of inequality is an important issue, and the first step to designing measures aimed at promoting equality of opportunity.

The aging of the population results in higher risks in the field of income and health care costs. Elderly people are becoming richer and healthier than in the past, but they are also facing more old age risks in the future. Social and financial innovation is necessary to better protect people...