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SUMMARY:2015 MICRA Annual Public Lecture - Extending Working Life: Prospe
 cts and Challenges
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DESCRIPTION:James Banks\nProfessor of Economics\, University of Mancheste
 r and Deputy Research Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies\n\nThi
 s year’s MICRA annual public lecture addresses a major area of debate in
  current social and economic policy. Extending working life is a now a k
 ey element in policies aimed at managing some of the pressures associate
 d with ageing societies. In the UK\, the target is to increase the avera
 ge age of retirement by 6 months every year. State pension ages (SPA) ar
 e being raised: from 2020 both men and women’s state pension age will be
  66\, increasing to 67 between 2026 and 2028.  Professor James Banks wil
 l consider some of the demographic and economic drivers behind this poli
 cy\, examining issues such as the changing likelihood of work at older a
 ges\, the effect of pension incentives on exit from work\, and links bet
 ween health and work.\n\nProfessor Banks is one of the UK’s leading expe
 rts on work and retirement issues. He came to Manchester in 2010 as Prof
 essor of Economics retaining a half-time appointment at the Institute of
  Fiscal Studies as Deputy Research Director and Co-Director of the ESRC 
 Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. He is Co-Princip
 al Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing\, a member o
 f the UK Government Pensions Statistics Advisory Group\, and a member of
  the Lead Expert Group Government Office for Science Group on Analysing 
 the Challenges and Opportunities of an Ageing Society.\n\nPlease registe
 r online for this free event
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre B\, University Place\, Manchester
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