The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has launched a follow-up review to its 2006 multi-country review, Live Longer, Work Longer.

The main purpose of this follow-up review, which will be carried out over the next two years, is two-fold: to take stock of countries' progress in implementing reforms to encourage work at an older age and to examine in more detail the role of demand-side factors in shaping job opportunities for older workers and fostering their employability and job mobility.

The new study will, amongst other things, consider how older workers have fared in the labour market since the beginning of the recent economic crisis and how this compares with the experience of previous downturns and recoveries.

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