Examines the changing face of work and retirement as economies face the prospect of ageining workforces. Reviews the status of policymaking concerned with age and employment and how it needs to be adapted to the changing circumstances and characteristics of individuals and societies...

Fiscal / financial sustainability of LTC systems; Quality of LTC services, home care arrangements; Encouraging informal care and formal LTC jobs...

[...]I will describe the dilemma by first reviewing thecontext of stagnant wages and living standards. I will thensummarize some of the trends—political and demographic—that economic angst has accelerated. Finally, I will examine the future path of the education/earningsgap in the short run,...

My assignment for this conference on U.S.wage trends was, as an outsider, to drawthe macroeconomic implications of wideningwage inequality. I shall do so in six points.[...]