September 2026
10Sep

The World’s Largest Pensions Are Hiring for an AI Future as They See Record Asset Growth

The world’s largest allocators are enthusiastically rethinking how to use artificial intelligence to manage money and hire talent. New research from WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute shows that many large pensions are still building their data, processes, and infrastructure needed to put their AI tools to work. Organizations are even rethinking how to hire talent, with at least one asset owner hiring employees with backgrounds in technology rather than finance — and training them on the fundamentals of investing. Jessica Gao, director...

September 10, 2026
News,
Read more...

August 2026
21Aug

The Global Transition – The Impact of Demographics and AI on Economic Power

By Seth Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Victor Yifan Ye This study deploys a multi-region, dynamic life-cycle, general equilibrium model to assess demography’s impact, through the course of this century, on global development. Our model’s 17 regions encompass more than 150 countries comprising 99% of the world’s population. Output is produced with three labor skill groups and internationally-mobile capital, with each country deciding annually whether to adopt its frontier automation technology. Our model features region-specific fiscal policy, TFP growth, and...

August 21, 2026
Aging, Articles, Labor Market, , , , ,
Read more...
21Aug

Job displacement and the health of older adults: Evidence from China

By Xiaoyun Zhang & Yiyang Luo This paper investigates the long-term consequences of involuntary job displacement on multidimensional health outcomes among middle-aged and older adults in urban China, using the 2014 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) Life History Questionnaire. To address the endogeneity of job loss, we exploit business closures, position cancellations, and layoffs during the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reforms in the late 1990s as exogenous labor market shocks and employ Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to control for...

August 21, 2026
Articles, Labor Market, , , ,
Read more...
14Aug

The Effect of Regularization Policies for Migrants on the Labor Market

By Puren Demirel This study reviews the labor-market effects of policies aimed at regularizing irregular migrants, with particular emphasis on amnesty programs and access to legal employment. Drawing on the existing literature and country experiences, it examines the mechanisms through which regularization may affect migrants, local workers, employers, and the broader economy. The analysis highlights that the effects of regularization depend strongly on host-country characteristics, including the size of the informal economy, labor-market structure, welfare arrangements, inspection capacity, and geographical...

August 14, 2026
Articles, Labor Market, , ,
Read more...
12Aug

US. NYC Aging Releases “What the Data Demands” Report on Affordability, Highlighting Economic Challenges Facing Older New Yorkers

The NYC Department for the Aging (NYC Aging) today released What the Data Demands: Findings from Older New Yorkers’ Financial Security, the latest issue paper in a series building on findings from The State of Older New Yorkers, which provides an in-depth examination of the affordability challenges confronting older New Yorkers, including financial insecurity, food insecurity, housing instability, and employment barriers. Drawing on responses from nearly 9,000 older New Yorkers who participated in the City's comprehensive Service Needs Assessment, the...

August 12, 2026
News, ,
Read more...
10Aug

Fewer babies, more retirees: How Europe’s demographic math is changing

Europe is confronting a demographic problem that is becoming increasingly difficult for governments to ignore: fewer children are being born while the number of older people continues to rise. The trend is already visible in shrinking schools, ageing communities and growing pressure on pension and healthcare systems. In the Spanish village of Vilardevos, the change is particularly stark. A primary school originally built for around 700 children now has only 31 pupils. Classes have to be combined because there are not...

August 10, 2026
News, , ,
Read more...

July 2026
30Jul

Population Aging Is Here. Immigration Can Offer Half an Answer.

Population aging has become a defining challenge of our time and is galloping ahead faster than predicted. In China, births have now fallen to levels not seen since 1949. But many countries are getting old before they grow rich: Comparable declines are being seen in Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. A shrinking workforce means less money to go around and increasing difficulties shouldering the costs of covering health care and pensions for retirees. In many fast-aging, wealthier...

July 30, 2026
News, Slider, Slider, , , ,
Read more...
24Jul

2026 Read on Retirement: A new era of retirement

By Black Rock When we look at confidence, we see savers who feel better about retirement than they have in years. But beneath that optimism, retirement income expectations and savings behavior tell a different story. And that gap is not experienced equally. Retirement challenges increasingly vary by generation and gender— revealing a retirement system that is becoming more individualized. Workplace savers increasingly know what they need to do, but competing financial priorities are making it harder to act. The challenge is less...

July 24, 2026
Books, Books, Reports, System Characterization, , , ,
Read more...
10Jul

Retirement in America: an Analysis of Retirement Preparedness Among Working-Age Americans

By Joelle Saad-Lessler & Tyler Bond This research examines the retirement preparedness of working-age Americans. The research answers key questions relating to retirement savings, access to retirement plans, and how saving for retirement interacts with other financial commitments, such as repaying student loan debt and owning a home. It also offers a broad examination of how different groups of workers are faring in their preparation for retirement and a consideration of where workers are falling short. The report key findings are...

July 10, 2026
Books, Books, Reports, System Characterization, , , ,
Read more...
07Jul

A Brief Age of Billions

Most leading projections show that the world’s population will peak in the second half of the twenty-first century. But what happens after that? Long-term projections by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin find that today’s large global population may be a blip in human history, and that fertility trends could have compounding consequences for population size and age structure far into the future.1 If fertility stays low, four-fifths of all human births may already have occurred. Dean Spears, Sangita...

July 7, 2026
News,
Read more...