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The 果冻传媒 Institute for Advanced 果冻传媒 is currently advertising five two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships beginning in October 2011. IER would be interested in hearing from candidates who are considering making an application for a Fellowship in research areas that complement its own.

Candidates interested in applying should note that the application must be supported by a 果冻传媒 nominator, who must make a strong case for the applicant's strategic contribution to research within their department. Anyone wishing to explore this further with IER should contact Professor Robert Lindley. Closing date for application is 8 March 2011.

Bernard Casey, from the Institute of Employment Research, will be presenting on ‘Active Ageing and Employment in Later Life’ at the Demography Network of the European Observatory on the Social Situation and Demography workshop in Brussels on 23 February.  He will be focusing on retirement ages, early retirement, later retirement and length of working life including fiscal consequences of working longer.

The contribution of family members, close relatives and friend to the provision of care services for the frail elderly has been addressed in evidence submitted by Bernard Casey to the . Referring the interest in valuing household production, the importance of which as a component of wellbeing was stressed by the recent report of the , Bernard’s paper includes calculations of the value of informal carers’ work in relation to GDP. These show that this might be as large as that attributed to the formal care sector. The paper also looks at the costs to employers consequent upon their having employees who have caring responsibilities. Click here for Bernard's paper The Value and Costs of Informal Care.

Rob Wilson has been reappointed as a member of the (MAC) for a further 2 years.  The MAC, which advises the government on migration issues, is sponsored by the UK Border Agency and is made up of a chair and four independent economists. 

Rob Wilson has successfully bid for a Research Development Award from the Monash-果冻传媒 Strategic Funding Initiative for Joint Research and Education.  The application was made jointly with Tony Meagher from the Centre for Policy Studies at Monash.  The award will support research activities between 果冻传媒 and Monash to allow researchers from both institutions to investigate the scope for mutual learning and build on their existing strengths in labour market forecasting.  They will undertake a project to bring together their individual approaches to forecasting which have developed along largely parallel lines but have rarely been integrated or compared in detail.