Global Ageing Survey and Future of Retirement 

Programme Director: Dr. George W. Leeson
 

  Global Ageing Survey (GLAS)

The Global Ageing Survey 2005-2008 (GLAS) comprises interviews with 44,000 people aged 40-80 in 25 countries drawn from Asia, Americas, Europe and Africa carried out in 3 waves.   It comprises cross comparative modules with HRS and SHARE on health and retirement, explores attitudes, expectations and behaviours towards later life and retirement, including financial planning for retirement. It includes interviews with 6000 employers.

Papers in preparation for publication include:

• Effects of Health on Labour Force Participation of Older Persons in Europe and Asia
• Caring and Working among the 40+ in Europe and Asia
• European and Asian Welfare regimes and care and support to older relativives.
• Retirement planning: global cross-comparisons
• Intergenerational transfers: a comparison of Asia and Europe

> GLAS Research Reports
 

  Future of Retiremement

FOR is a series of corporate reports produced for HSBC by the Oxford Insititue of Population Ageing.

In 2005 HSBC published the results of its first global survey: The Future of Retirement in a World of Rising Life Expectancies. That survey covered 11,000 adults (aged 18 and over) in ten countries and territories across four continents.

The OIA was invited to collaborate on the second survey, and members of the OIA led by Dr. George W. Leeson analysed the data and authored the subsequent report, entitled: The Future of Retirement: What the world wants. HSBC interviewed more than 21,000 adults in 20 countries and territories across five continents, which comprise 62% of the world’s population. 6,000 private-sector employers across the same 20 countries and territories, were surveyed to address their attitudes to older workers and the issues presented by global ageing and changing models of retirement.

The 2006/2007 wave of the survey was redesigned by the OIA in order to allow comparative analysis with other international and national surveys on ageing and later life. The focus of the third survey entitled: The Future of Retirement: The New Old Age explores intergenerational transfers, social and familial networks, workplace and community contributions, and expectations and experiences in respect of withdrawal from the workplace.

The 2008 Future of Retirement report has now been released, entitled The Future of Retirement: investing in Later Life. This fourth report examines the data collected from 44,000 people in 25 countries and territories around the world, investigating how people prepare for what is now emerging as the ‘second half of their lives
 

  Researchers:

George W. Leeson, Hafiz TA Khan, Sarah Harper, Martin Karlsson, Sue Marcus and Atulya Saxena.

  Funding: HSBC Insurance