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Please find below the Agenda for the OECD seminar on "Life Risks, the Life
Course and Social Policy" to be held at the 0ECD's International Energy
Agency, 9 rue de la Fédération, Paris on 31 May and 1 June.
Attendance at the Seminar is free, but participants are responsible for all
other expenses.
The seminar will be in English and French, with translation.
Persons interested in attending the Seminar should confirm your attendance as
soon as possible either by replying to me or to Isabelle Vallard at
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Peter Whiteford
Principal Administrator (Welfare Reform)
Social Policy Division
Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
OECD
Phone: 33 (0)1 45 24 90 41
Fax: 33 (0)1 45 24 90 98
OECD Social Policy Division via www.oecd.org/els/social
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Agenda - Life Risks, Life Course and Social Policy, Paris, 31 May - 1 June,
2007
Social Policy Division - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social
Affairs, OECD
To be held at the 0ECD's International Energy Agency, 9 rue de la Fédération,
Paris 15 (Metro Bir Hakeim)
Seminar: 1st day Thursday, 31 May 2007
13.30 REGISTRATION
14.00 OPENING PLENARY
14.05 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
"The life course perspective and social policies - an overview of the issues"
This paper will provide a broad review of the role and usefulness of life
course concepts in developing new approaches to social policy, discussing the
nature of social and economic changes calling for a new life-course
perspective and the evidence for increased variability in life course
experiences.
Professor Lans Bovenberg, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Discussion : Peter Hicks, Human Resources and Social Development, Canada
15.10 Coffee Break
15.30 SESSION 1: Review of policies to redistribute time across the life
course
If individuals have greater freedom to allocate time over the life course as
they wish, what will be the implications for careers and aggregate labour
supply? The objective of these papers and discussion is to review available
evidence from OECD countries on the nature and impact of different approaches
to redistribute time or resources across the life course, for example to
facilitate the transition into retirement or to take time out of paid work
for caring or studying.
Paper 1: Dr Colette Fagan, University of Manchester, United Kingdom - The
Life course and caring responsibilities
This paper will evaluate the role and effectiveness of existing and
alternative policies to assist individuals and families in their roles as
carers, both of children and dependent adults.
Paper 2: Stephanie Devisscher, IDEA Consult, Belgium -Ageing and life course
issues
This paper and discussion will focus on ageing and the life course, reviewing
evidence on programmes designed to facilitate the transition into retirement,
for example through part-time work or phased retirement.
Paper 3: Associate Professor Lei Delsen, Radboud University, Nijmegen -
Taking stock of the 2006 Dutch Life Course Savings Scheme
This paper provides an initial evaluation of the Life course Savings Scheme
introduced in the Netherlands in 2006.
17.30 Finish of Day 1
Seminar: 2nd day, Friday, 1 June 2007
9.30 SESSION 1 :
Paper 4: Dr Christine Erhel, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne, Université
Panthéon Sorbonne,Paris I -Life course policies and the labour market
This paper reviews the implications for the labour market of different
approaches to redistribute time or resources across the life course
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 SESSION 2:
Paper 5: Ken Battle and Michael Mendelson, Caledon Institute of Social
Policy, Ottawa, Canada -Assets-based welfare programmes in OECD countries - a
review
This paper provides a critical evaluation of the characteristics and
effectiveness of the range of different assets-based welfare programmes in
OECD countries, such as, for example, the Child Trust Fund in the United
Kingdom, as well as proposals for capitalized benefits and other investment
programmes.
Discussion: Professor Elaine Kempson, University of Bristol
12.00 SESSION 3:
Paper 6: Professor Ivar Lødemel, Research Director, GIV, Oslo University
College, Norway Assets-testing in social assistance programmes - a review
This paper reviews different means-tested social assistance programmes in
OECD countries, and discusses possible effects of these programmes on the
savings behaviour of recipients, and implications for self-reliance.
13.00 -14.30 LUNCH
14.30 SESSION 4:
Paper 7: Professor Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg, Professor of Economics and Social
Insurance, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
- Evidence on redistribution across the life course in existing social
protection systems
This paper reviews available evidence from OECD countries on the extent to
which different systems of social protection redistribute across the life
course (or redistribute between individuals).
15.30 PANEL DISCUSSION
16.30 End of seminar
Contact persons: Peter Whiteford ([log in to unmask]); Anna Cristina
D'Addio ([log in to unmask]
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