Grant: Team Grant: More Years / Better Lives

The main research objective is to document how inequalities in ageing - such as those between rich and poor and those between men and women - have changed across successive birth cohorts. This project will rely on data and reforms carried out in five advanced countries encompassing North America, Western Europe and Scandinavia and carefully chosen to ensure a wide span of institutional arrangements in areas such as labour markets, social security and private pensions (Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom). We will document recent trends in life-expectancy and healthy ageing inequality by income, gender and other socio-economic backgrounds. We will use administrative data to bring together information on income, occupation, residence and death records and construct detailed measures of mortality inequalities, and assess how these have changed across recent cohorts. Using survey data on health at older ages, we will estimate inequalities of healthy ageing by gender and socio-economic background . We will also study how the looming increase in care needs generates additional inequalities for carers and those needing care. We will analyse how the gender gap in informal care - elderly care is overwhelmingly provided by women - is related to labour market and pension inequalities.