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SPECIFIC CALL ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF POPULATION AGING FOR SOCIETY:

RESEARCH GRANTS AT CEPS/INSTEAD LUXEMBOURG


- CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg – together with its Large Scale Facility
programme IRISS-C/I (co-funded by the European Commission, TMR
Programme, DG XII) and its international Database "Luxembourg Income
Study - LIS" (Director : Prof. Tim Smeeding), and

- the International Center for Longevity (ILC) in New York, a non-profit
institution devoted to the study of aging populations in a
cross-national
context,

hereby announce their common Call for Research Proposals (Deadline: 15
March 1999) on the following theme :

Consequences of population aging for society

Topics to be investigated would include the following :

- fiscal impacts of population aging for national and subnational
Governments
- longevity and healthy aging
- time use in older ages, including retirement, work, education and
volunteer activities
- early retirement
- retirement and economic well-being in old age
- acute and chronic health care needs of the frail elderly
- disability at older ages
- funded vs. unfunded social and private/occupational pension schemes
- living arrangements of the aged
- generational relations, generational equity and old age

Research grants will be mainly using the international comparative
databases developed by CEPS/INSTEAD - the Luxembourg Income Study
(LIS), the Luxembourg Employment Study (LES) and the Household Panel
Comparability Database (PACO). Additional national datasets from
various countries in the field of Population Aging will also be
considered, if available. CEPS/INSTEAD is currently negociating access
to the
European Community Household Panel (ECHP) data which may be available as
well, by the time the grantees will be coming to the Centre.

For existing data, variables and technical documentation, please contact
the information on the CEPS/INSTEAD Web page http://www.ceps.lu
(see LIS, LES and PACO) or contact the database administrators :

- Koen Vleminckx for LIS : [log in to unmask] . Tel : +352 585855-519
- Elena Bardasi for LES : [log in to unmask] . Tel : +352 585855-508
- Guenther Schmaus for PACO : [log in to unmask] . Tel : +352
585855-509.
- Uwe Warner for ECHP : [log in to unmask] Tel : +352 58 58 55-554.

Access Conditions :

IRISS can offer grants for ca. 10 researchers who are nationals of an EU
member state or an associated state (currently Iceland, Israel,
Liechtenstein, Norway) and conducting research in a research team
working inside the member states of the EU or associated states;
the Luxembourg Income Study and the International Center for Longevity
will raise funds for the participation of researchers from other
countries.

Information for both categories of applicants – researchers from EU
countries and associated states, as well as researchers from other
countries,
particularly the US, Canada and Japan – will be available on the
IRISS-C/I homepage http://www.ceps.lu/iriss/iriss.htm by 8 February
1999.

Only researchers/research teams doing non proprietary research (who are
entitled to publish the results of their work in the open literature)
may
apply. Level of research: preferably doctoral candidates or beyond (no
limitation concerning applicant's age).

Research grants would cover a period of 2 – 3 weeks, starting mid-July
1999. The idea is to bring researchers from many different countries
together at CEPS/INSTEAD, in the immediate environment of a group of
senior experts in this field – to discuss existing data infrastructures
(national, local, regional and international) and needs for the future
and to work together in analysing the available data.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is March 15, 1999.

Proposals will be evaluated by at least four independent experts of at
least two different countries.

Candidates will be informed about the outcome of the evaluation before
30 April 1999.

Additional information and application forms available at :

IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD, b.p. 48, L-4501 Differdange
http://www.ceps.lu/iriss/iriss.htm .

E-mail addresses/contacts :

- for EU nationals or researchers from Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein or
Norway :
[log in to unmask] ; Ulrike Kohl,  IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD project
manager
b.p. 48; L-4501 Differdange, LUXEMBOURG; phone: +352 58 58 55-555; fax:
+352 58 55 60

- for other countries : [log in to unmask] ; Tim Smeeding,
Director,
Center for Policy Research (and Luxembourg Income Study, LIS),
426 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
13244-1020, USA
phone: (+1) 315-443-9042;  fax: (+1) 315-443-1081
CPR's WWW:  http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu; LIS' WWW:
http://lissy.ceps.lu/index.htm




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