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Addressing Economic Inactivity Among Over 50s [1]

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Date: 2023-09 

Unemployment has reached historic lows in many parts of the UK. However, the economic inactivity rate, which had generally been falling in recent decades, increased during the pandemic.

The increase in inactivity is being driven by two age-groups. Those aged 50+ and in the 16-24 group.

During this online event, Prof Muiris MacCarthaigh and Dr Ka Ka Tsang from Queens University Belfast will co-chair a policy solutions roundtable on the challenges of economic inactivity faced by people aged 50 and over.

This public roundtable from the International Public Policy Observatory will offer a forum to share and learn from previous and current interventions. Invited expert speakers will reflect on what works and what doesn’t work from current interventions to address economic inactivity within communities across the UK, and internationally.

Speakers will include:

Prof. Graeme Roy, Professor of Economics at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and IPPO Scotland lead

Dr Anne Devlin, Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Social Research Institute, Ireland a labour economics expert who has published widely on the economics of disability as well as economic inactivity in the North and South of Ireland.

Mr Massimiliano Mascherini, Head of the Social Policies Unit at Eurofound who leads projects on unemployment of NEETS and older people as well as the labour participation of women.

Kari Osterud, Director of the Senior Policy Centre in Norway

Expert presentations will be followed by a Q&A session, where the audience will have the opportunity to pose questions to the panellists.

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