This policy brief analyses poverty risks faced by the current populations of elderly people in the latest year (ie. around 2003).

The analyses point to key policy responses necessary to meet the social objectives of sustainability as well as adequacy of pensions in the European Union.

This analysis was part of the 'Evaluation study on the effects of the implementation of the Children's Rights Amendment Act 2001, with particular reference to joint custody after divorce' (commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice).

This policy brief draws upon the empirical evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey, by analysing differences and similarities across the EU25 with respect to the labour force participation among older workers.