The think tank Global Health 2030 is launching a call for applications for an 8-month fixed-term contract to carry out a study on the health professions of the future. 

The Caisse nationale des Allocations familiales (Cnaf) is offering a CIFRE contract and prizes for scientific articles for the Revue des politiques sociales et familiales, which will focus on themes of interest to the Family branch of Social Security, such as family and social policies and family-related social phenomena. Deadline: March 1, 2022. 

Call for papers "La fabrique de l'inclusion numérique des personnes âgées" of the Revue des Sciences Sociales until March 1, 2022 

The savings and investment meetings will take place on December 7, 2021 in Paris. They will focus in particular on retirement savings: what role will they play in French people's savings in the future? 

BILT Exchange Forum on New Skills and Competencies: Building the Future of TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training), December 7-9, 2021, organized by UNESCO, Céreq and the Human Resource Development Council of Botswana.

Symposium of the Pasteur Institute, the PILEJE Foundation and the National Academy of Medicine on "Longevity: a revolution but at what price? on December 8th.

AFSE and DG Treasury are organizing the seventh "Evaluation of Public Policies" conference at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Recovery on Thursday, December 9, 2021. 

The first LEM doctoral day will be held on January 27, 2022 at IESEG

CREM, SMART LERECO laboratory and TEPP research federation are organising the 38th Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée (JMA) at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rennes 1 on 2nd and 3rd June 2022. The deadline for submission of papers is 31th January 2022. 

COR colloquium on 15 November 2021 "Is the COR too optimistic?

3rd annual conference of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Démographie (HED) on 29 November 2021 from 8.45 am to 12 noon at the Centre des Colloques of the Campus Condorcet

The 11th IFBAE congress will be held at the IGR-IAE Rennes on 23 and 24 June 2022 on the theme "Managing organisations in an uncertain context: what process and what practices?

Insee, QuantCube, PSE, CANDRIAM and Société Générale create the Research Chair "Measuring the economy, nowcasting - beyond GDP". 

Call for papers of the journal Gérontologie et société "Les métiers périphériques : Interactions, collaborations et professionnalisation". Deadline for submission: 28 February 2022. 

Event of the Club Landoy, Maison de la Radio and TDTE Chair on "What new contract between generations?" on Tuesday 9 November 2021 at the Maison de la Radio

The TDTE Chair is organizing a conference on October 25, 2021 on the theme "Making France a full activity society". It will take place from 9am to 6pm at the Hôtel de l'Industrie, 4 place Saint-Germain des Prés, 75006 Paris. 

The workshop "Inverstors' behavior in equity crowdfunding" of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management of the University of Angers, will take place on October 19, 2021. 

Fedotenkov and Vandeplas, in their paper "The Implications of Ageing for Business Dynamics", investigate whether shifts in demographic structure, notably ageing, can affect firm entry rates in the European Union. Findings indicate a positive effect of longer life expectancy on entry rates through several mechanisms: entrepreneurship, labor market participation and demand. Consequently, the authors highlight the relevance of public policies, particularly investment in health, in promoting business dynamism.

The COR has published its monthly report "Retirees' wealth and the transmission of wealth" and shows that, contrary to economic theory, households continue to accumulate wealth during their retirement. 

Böheim, Horvath, Leoni and Spielauer published in the NBER an article on "The Impact of Health and Education on Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies - Projections for the United States and Germany from a Dynamic Microsimulation". Based on a microsimulation model and within a context of demographic aging, the authors compare the labor force evolution between Germany and the United States. In the baseline scenario, projections show that the US labor force is set to increase by 16.2% among 15-74 year-olds over the period 2020-2060. On the other hand, the German labor force is projected to decline by 10.7% over the same period. Yet, by investigating various hypothetical scenarios, the authors highlight that healthcare and education policies are a fairly ambitious option for both countries to increase their employment levels and meet demographic aging challenges.

Dora Costa has published an article in the NBER entitled "Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children" in which she analyzes the intergenerational transmission of a paternal health shock. More specifically, the author seeks to measure the longevity, after 45 years, of grandchildren of former prisoners of the Civil War of 1861-65. The results show that the probability of dying at any age after 45 years for grandchildren of former prisoners of war, whose parents were born after the war, is 1.1 times higher than for grandchildren of non prisoners of war. Paternal ancestral conditions are thus just as important as intra-uterine or social factors in determining longevity of future generations.

A report from the OECD, COVID-19 and Well-being: Life in the Pandemic, found that younger people have suffered more from the economic consequences of the pandemic than their elders. "The power of youth" website provides a collection of data and recommendations to ensure a strong and sustainable investment in education, employment and mental health for youth.  

In issue no. 11 of Questions Politiques Sociales - Les brèves, La Caisse des Dépôts provides a complete statistical summary of the characteristics (age, regional and hierarchical distribution, size, etc.) of pensioners in the three branches of the French civil service in 2020. 

France Stratégie has issued a note titled "Protection sociale : qui paie le coût du vieillissement ?" emphasizing the stabilization of social protection spending as a share of GDP over the last decade, despite persistent demographic aging. This is mainly explained by the slowdown - as a consequence of various reforms - in the amount of benefits received on average per capita over the age of 60 and by the diversification of funding resources giving greater weight to older people's contributions.

OCIRP presented the results of a quantitative study conducted with Viavoice among private sector employees in France. It questioned employees who are caregivers on the number of hours of help, their difficulties and their needs. An index of well-being was modelled from responses to 12 questions on well-being at work - IBEA - Indice de Bien-Être des salariés Aidants. The study shows that there can be a whole typology of employee carers depending on the caring situation and the support from the company. 

Ruhm published an article in the NBER entitled "Excess deaths in the United States during the first year of Covid-19". This study seeks to estimate the number of excess deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic by better estimating the counterfactual number of baseline deaths that would have occurred in its absence. In the US, between March 2020 and February 2021, there were over 600,000 excess deaths and 83% are directly attributed to Covid-19. 

Butcher, Moran and Watson published an article in the NBER on "Immigrant Labor and the institutionalization of the US-born Elderly". In this paper, the authors looked at the impact of immigration on the likelihood of the US-born elderly living in institutions. They are able to identify exogenous variation in immigration and find that a 10 percentage point increase in the foreign-born, less-educated workforce in a sparsely populated area reduces the institutionalization of the over-65s by 1.5 percentage points and the over-80s by 3.8 percentage points. An American, born in the USA, and aged over 65 in 2000 was 10% less likely to live in an institution than if immigration had remained at 1980 levels. This can be explained by the fact that immigration impacts on the availability and cost of home care services; carers, gardeners, housekeepers and ultimately reduces the cost of ageing to society. 

The Conseil d'Orientation des Retraites (French pension guidance council) has reviewed its choice of long-term economic assumptions for its pension system projections. For its 2022 annual report, four productivity targets were used (0.7%, 1%, 1.3% and 1.6%). The long-term unemployment rate was estimated at 7%. 

The UNCCAS presented its white paper on autonomy and presented its recommendations on several axes: fighting against social isolation and maintaining social ties, accompanying and supporting isolated caregivers, territorial coordination, staying in one's own home, social inclusion and the preventive intermediary offer. 

The OECD has just published its 2021 report "Pension markets in focus" which shows that assets in retirement savings plans continued to grow in 2020, despite the Covid-19 health crisis. They represent more than $56 trillion worldwide and have therefore increased by 11% since 2019. This growth is due to an increase in the number of people with a retirement savings plan, increased contributions and positive investment returns. The report also compares the characteristics, commonalities and differences of public pension reserve funds. 

The OECD has released its 2021 report "Health at a glance" and shows that Covid-19 has caused nearly 2.5 million additional deaths in OECD countries. Covid-19 also disrupted access to health care for other needs and had a significant impact on the mental health of people by more than doubling the prevalence of anxiety and depression in OECD countries. These findings point to the need to strengthen the resilience of our health care systems, including addressing the shortage of health care providers. Although health care spending has increased in OECD countries, it is still too heavily focused on curative rather than preventive care, including chronic disease factors (such as tobacco, alcohol, and obesity) that also increase the risk of dying from Covid-19.

Céreq Bref n°413 published an article on "Les jeunes en situation de NEET : le rôle des compétences de base" written by Giret and Jongbloed. The authors state that diplomas and basic skills are necessary conditions to avoid NEET situations but not sufficient. On the other hand, the absence of a minimum level of basic skills is penalising for young people. 

Meyerhoefer et al published an article in the Journal of Dental Research on "Dental care use, edentulism and systemic health among older adults". Using data from the 1992 to 2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, they looked at the relationship between dental care use and recurrence of chronic diseases. They found that having dental care in the past two years was associated with a 2.7% reduction in the likelihood of being diagnosed with a heart condition and a 5.3% to 11.6% reduction in experiencing a stroke. 

Coile published in the NBER "The geography of retirement" in which she uses data from the US Census and the American Community Survey to look at differences in old-age employment rates across geographic areas. She finds that in areas of commuting, high age employment rates vary greatly. Low employment areas are characterised by a less educated population, more diversity, more low-wage jobs, less access to health care and lower public spending. 

Hanushek et al published an article on "The Intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes" in the NBER. Using Dutch survey and register data, the authors show a causal link between the cognitive skills of parents and those of their children. 

The DIAL laboratory has published its 62nd newsletter DIALOGUE which reports on the first virtual International Conference on Development Economics (ICDE 2021) organised by the Dial, GREThA and LAREFI. 

Bénédicte Apouey published an article "What does 'ageing well' mean?" in the journal Retraite et société. The researcher interviewed 1,700 members, aged between 40 and 84, of a mutual health insurance company in 2016 and asked them about their vision of ageing well. The four components of ageing well are: satisfaction with health, financial situation, family life and marriage. It shows that ageing well is a multidimensional concept that can also vary according to social background. Thus, seniors with a high social position favour satisfaction with health, couple life, social life and social activities. While seniors with lower social positions favour satisfaction with housing or the living environment.

The IPP has published a note on "Women and men are equally likely to be carers for their dependent spouse, but the nature of their help differs" written by Léa Toulemon. It shows that women and men are equally likely to help their dependent spouse at the same age and with the same needs. However, women are more likely to perform acts related to physical care (dressing, washing) and men more likely to perform acts outside the home (shopping). 

The Institute for Longevity, Ageing and Aging has published its 21st newsletter on "Ageing of people with disabilities". This newsletter offers several articles to decipher this phenomenon. 

Marc Nabeth has just published a book on "Inclusive insurance" with Les Essentiels de l'Argus de l'assurance. This book aims to think about insurance differently, to help people, especially when they are most vulnerable. It presents the conditions for success and inclusive insurance products based on operational missions and testimonies of vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and France. Preface by François-Xavier Albouy.