This is the question that is raised in an economic analysis of the ageing of society in the UK and in a far ranging discussion paper. Both are published by BIS (Department for Business Innovation and Skills) on its mini-website www.bis.gov.uk/ageingpopulation.
You can find the relevant discussion paper here (as a PDF download) and the analysis can be found here.
PRIME would like to highlight three things:
(i) The Discussion Paper invites your input by the 30th June 2010. This is your opportunity to say what you think is important.
(ii) For the first time a paper published by the government states that almost one person in three between the ages of fifty and state pension age is currently out of work. This needs to be emblazoned from the tree-tops to counter some of the knee-jerk media response to unemployment statistics.
(iii) Self-employment for the over 50s is featured as an important labour market response. Olderpreneurship is not seen as a rather quirky side issue, but an important part of the future economy.
(iv) Wow. Someone has been listening.
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