Sharing economic benefits equitably across all segments of society includes addressing the specific challenges of different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle years. Broad-based policies should aim to foster youth...

Introduction: taking a bite out of the big avocado of life -- The young and the workless -- Not our parents' job market -- Human-capital punishment -- Millennius domesticus -- The Saturday-morning bank heist -- Their present, our future -- Millennials in charge -- Epilogue: hiding in plain sight

This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. Taking a life-course perspective the report shows how inequalities in education, health, employment and earnings compound,...

1. Conceptualisations and Measurement -- 2. Theories and Empirical Findings -- 3. Happiness and Policy -- 4. Inequality -- 5. Poverty, Deprivation and Social Class -- 6. Some Questions of Intergenerational Economics -- 7. Ageing, House Prices, and Economic Crises -- 8. Behavioural Economics and...