European Ageing in Focus

Catrien Bijleveld is a senior researcher at The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and an emeritus professor of Research Methods in Empirical Legal Studies. Additionally, she is a professor of Global Justice at Liverpool University’s Faculty of Law within the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology and a member of The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy. Her main research interests are in the areas of criminal careers, experimental evaluation, intergenerational continuity in (sex) offending and crime victimization. She is the author of several textbooks as well as of edited books.Roel Jennissen is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He obtained a PhD in demography from the University of Groningen based on the book Macro-Economic Determinants of International Migration in Europe (2004). Currently, his main research interests are crime, international migration and super-diversity.Laura Vonk is a research associate at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). Her previous work includes studies and policy analysis on precarious employment. In 2024, she obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on aesthetic labor.Casper de Vries is emeritus Witteveen professor of Monetary Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. De Vries is a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and serves as a member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He received his graduate training at Purdue University, after which he held positions at Texas A&M University and KU Leuven. He has been a visiting scholar at several European and American research institutes and central banks and has served as vice dean of research and education at the Erasmus School of Economics and as a crown member to the Dutch socio-economic Council (SER). De Vries’s research interests focus on international monetary issues, like foreign exchange rate determination and exchange rate risk, the Euro area, financial markets risk, risk management, systemic risk and statistical extreme value analysis.Gijsbert Werner is a is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy. At the WRR, he has worked on advisory reports to the Dutch government on topics such as financial and social sustainability of health care, climate justice, pension risks, global demographic change and synthetic drug policy. Previously, he worked as an evolutionary biologist studying the evolution of cooperation at the University of Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

• 1.Introduction — The Position of the Netherlands in an Ageing Europe.- 2.Pension Dilemmas in an Ageing Europe.- 3. State of Play and Future Outlook for European Pensions and Ageing.- 4.Economic Impact of Pension and Budgetary Risks.- 5.Political and Social Impact.- 6.Four Risks for Europe.- 7.Conclusion and Recommendations.- Index.