Ageing and
Competitiveness

Introduction

The workshop will deal, from a multidisciplinary and versatile perspective, with the diverse effects that are caused by the ageing process that is taking place now or that will take place in the future in great part of the developed economies, amongst them the European ones. Given that projections estimate a special impact of this demographic change in the Basque Country, special attention is given to the consequences of the ageing process on the Basque economy and its society and to the policies designed to avoid or alleviate them.

Programme

• 9:00 Enrollement opening
• 9:30 Working dynamic introduction
• 10:00-11:30 Session I: Urban ageing and competitiveness

  This session will analyse the local dimension of the ageing process, based on the effects that this process generates in urban areas, paying particular attention to responses from the local authorities.

  • Chair:

    Marisol Esteban – Professor of Applied Economy at the Basque Country University

  • Speakers:

    Peter Kresl- Professor of Economics Emeritus at Bucknell University, USA

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    Iñigo Maguregui- Legal Adviser at the Revision Office or the General Urban Ordenation at Bilbao City Council

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• 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
• 12:00-13:30 Session II: Ageing and the labour force

  This session will analyze the effects of ageing on the labour market, particularly on the volume of available labour force, and the possible micro and macroeconomic responses.

  • Chair:

    Felipe Serrano- Professor of Applied Economy at the Basque Country University

  • Speakers:

    Sarah Harper- Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Institute of PopulationAgeing

    Jesús Ferreiro- Assistant Professor of Applied Economy at the Basque Country University

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• 13:30-14:45 Lunch
• 14:45- 16:15 Sesión III: Ageing and design of the new welfare politics

  The aim of this session is to analyze the most recent reflections on the design of welfare and care for the elderly population policies, highlighting policies developed by the different Spanish Autonomous Regions.

  • Chair:

    Olga Rivera- Vice- Councilor of Quality, Research, and Health Innovation in the Department of Health and Consumer Affairs at the Basque Government

  • Speaker:

    Mª José Castro Nieto- General Manager for the Elderly, Ministry for Equal Opportunities and Social Wellbeing, Regional Government of Andalusia

    José Javier Yanguas- Director of the Gerontological Institute Matia (INGEMA)