Opportunities in the Silver Economy Swiss National Conference on the theme of Older Workers 16.06.2017, Jérôme Cosandey
Demographic Changes: What Is At Stake? A Swiss View Focus of the month The aging of society has many consequences: People reach higher and higher ages – and stay young for longer and longer. This encouraging development is a challenge for society at various levels – not just financially: the number of retirees in Switzerland will grow by 900,000 (+ 61%) to 2.4 million by 2035, while the working population will only increase by 7% in the same period. 02.06.2017, Fernanda Guerrero, Tibère Adler
New Measures for Old Age Care Cantonal Monitoring 7: Organising and funding a task of increasing social importance 14.06.2016, Jérôme Cosandey, Kevin Kienast
Working Life Does not End at 65 Fascinating results from the latest Swiss Labour Force Survey 27.04.2016, Jérôme Cosandey
Bilateralism – what else? Autonomy despite dependence 07.12.2015, Patrik Schellenbauer und Gerhard Schwarz (Ed.), with contributions from Alois Bischofberger, Peter Buomberger, Astrid Epiney, Daniel Gros, Urs Meister, Daniel Müller-Jentsch and Rudolf Walser
A Savings Scheme for Old Age Care avenir suisse in motion Video series «Avenir Suisse in motion» 23.10.2015, Jérôme Cosandey, Simone Hofer Frei
Passive voting rights for active foreigners Possibilities for political engagement at local level 08.09.2015, Tibère Adler, Hugo Moret, Nicole Pomezny and Tobias Schlegel
Outpatient Care Is not always Cheaper than Nursing Homes A change of direction in old age care 28.08.2015, Jérôme Cosandey
No Over-Rigid Labour Market Rules for the Elderly Elderly workers are losing their jobs less often than in the past. But they are having to look longer for new positions. Special job protection rules are counter-productive, as they make hiring older workers harder, not easier. 20.04.2015, Jérôme Cosandey
Employment for the elderly in its infancy Seniors as trump cards against skills shortages 27.01.2015, Jérôme Cosandey
Singapore – surviving by success The aim of the new „avenir special“ on Singapore is to encourage people to take a bold approach to thinking about Switzerland. 19.08.2014, Gerhard Schwarz, Simone Hofer Frei, Samuel Rutz
Overcoming generational (in)equity How to reform an outdated contract 10.07.2014, Jérôme Cosandey, with contributions of Martin Eling, François Höpflinger and Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello
Overall target rather than quotas How the immigration initiative target can be met while preserving the free movement of persons 15.05.2014, Patrik Schellenbauer
Managed Immigration Switzerland’s referendum vote to curb immigration has prompted questions about how a quota based system could be implemented. A new Avenir Suisse special publication examines and rates administrative and price-based options. The comparisons reveal an auction system would be the “least bad” alternative. 08.04.2014, Gerhard Schwarz, Urs Meister und Patrik Schellenbauer (Publishers)
A Total Package to Prevent Tactical Manoeuvring Alain Berset talks about the Altersvorsorge 2020 pension reform plan at the Avenir Suisse annual dinner 02.04.2014, Verena Parzer-Epp
The Overall Target: Less Immigration in Spite Of the Free Movement of Persons Switzerland does not have to break its accords with the European Union on the free movement of persons to meet the aims of the “Masseneinwanderungsinitiative” (the successful February referendum on limiting immigration, ed). Instead, immigration could be curbed bindingly and durably by a 10 year “overall target” (ie. cap) on… 03.03.2014, Patrik Schellenbauer, Gerhard Schwarz
There Is no Free Lunch when It Comes to Pensions Reform Big rises in contributions to occupational pensions 03.09.2013, Jérôme Cosandey
Work till You Drop? Greater flexibility is the solution to the pension system’s financing problems 24.07.2013, Gerhard Schwarz
