International Symposium on
Business Responses to the Demographic Challenge

Presentations

Session 1 - The demographic challenge

• Job outlook in France by 2015 ... and beyond - (pdf 388 KB)
  Jean-Pierre Richard, Institut Manpower pour l'Emploi adviser
• What the demographic challenge means for business - (pdf 562 KB)
  Dr. Nicola Hülskamp, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln
• The Business Responses to the Demographic Challenge - (pdf 42 KB)
  Esther Busser, ITUC
• The demographic challenge: an overview of trends and policy issues - (pdf 111 KB)
  Azita Berar Awad, Director, Employment Policy Department, ILO, Geneva

Session 2 - Public policy issues: what we have learned so far

• Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in the United States - (pdf 106 KB)
  Susan Reinhard, Senior Vice President, AARP Public Policy Institute
• Creating Choices - (pdf 1,46 MB)
  Naj Ghosheh, Conditions of Work & Employment Programme, ILO, Geneva
• Social security: Ageing and maturing in times of crises… - (pdf 563 KB)
  Michael Cichon, Social Security Department, ILO, Geneva
• Ageing and fully-funded pensions - (pdf 327 KB)
  Guillermo Arthur E., President, International Federation Of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP)

Session 3 - Managing an older workforce

• Institut Manpower's work on the age issue in France - (pdf 344 KB)
  Professor Jean-Claude Javillier, Chairman of the Institut Manpower Scientific Advisory Board
• Age Diversity at the Workplace: A Comparative Study on the Influence of National Institutions on Employers' Age Management Practices in Germany, Japan and the UK - (pdf 285 KB)
  Michael Muller-Camen, Matt Flynn and Heike Schroeder, Middlesex University Business School London, UK
  Matt Flynn, Masa Higo, Heike Schroeder and Atsuhiro Yamada, Middlesex University, Boston College and Keio University

Session 4 - Changing atittudes

• Ageing workforce: Challenges and solutions - (pdf 640 KB)
  Maja Soba Tovsak, Permanent Delegate of ZDS to BUSINESSEUROPE (ZDS – Association of employers of Slovenia)
• Tackling "Hidden" Age Discrimination - (pdf 202 KB)
  Dr Kathleen Riach, University of Essex, UK
• Managing an Older Workforce - (pdf 75 KB)
  Susan Reinhard, Senior Vice President, AARP Public Policy Institute
• Differences in professional competence of younger and older employees - (pdf 871 KB)
  Professor Dr. M. Becker, Dipl.-Kfm. Inéz Labucay, M. Sc., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittengerg

Session 5 - Workplace initiatives

• Life-long talent management - (pdf 1,31 MB)
  AREVA HRD
• Age is a matter of mind ... if you don't mind, it doesn't matter - (pdf 1,3 MB)
  Jan Wijnands, Xerox Venray, Netherlands
• The Business Responses to the Demographic Challenge - (pdf 1,04 MB)
  Rouben Halajian, Head of International HR Policies, METRO AG