Older job seekers are close to those of their younger counterparts in terms of gender and nationality profiles, but are less qualified. The types of jobs sought by the older job seekers are similar to those sought by their juniors. Older unemployed are more subject to decisions outplacement and suffer more disability than younger unemployed (42 % against 16 %). Finally, the long-term unemployment affects far more often unemployed seniors.

This publication CEPS / Instead focus on the employment situation before and after the accession to the status of independent seniors. Older residents of Luxembourg nationality newly independent are mostly former inactive.

71% of couples choose to pool all their resources. 20% opt for a partial pooling and only 9% choose to separate account. However, these figures are averages, mode of resource sharing varies widely characteristics of couples and each spouse. The popular adage is especially true for married couples, couple for at least a decade and have had children.

The last "Living in Luxembourg" publication from CEPS / Instead shows a sense of financial difficulties more common in families and among households at risk of poverty objective. The increase in the number of children does not exacerbate the feelings of financial difficulties among households that are objectively in a precarious financial situation.

This publication of "Vivre au Luxembourg" n° 85 from CEPS/Instead analysis the interim work as a way to promote the employment of persons aged 50 years or more. Several arguments feed this debate.....

The publication Vivre au Luxembourg n° 84 from CEPS/Instead draws a panorama of the working conditions of the seniors, people aged 50 and more, which have an impact on the physical or mental health. The conditions considered are the working climate, the recognition at work and the working the pace.

According to a study about health and fulfillment at work, published in the last Vivre au Luxembourg from CEPS/INSTEAD, the seniors are less stressed at work. However if they are stressed it will be more intensive. 33% say that they are professionally fulfilled against 20% of the people aged below 50 years.

In 2011, 19% of the workers employed in the private sector are aged between 50 and more. The proportion of seniors has been multiplied by 1.5 in less than 10 years as they represented 13% of the workers in 2003.

While the Luxemburgish resident population is aging at a nearly similar pace to the one observed in the neighbour countries, the aging pace of the active population working in Luxemburg is slower. This is due to the massive presence of the frontier workers and the foreign residents in this population, which are on average younger than the Luxemburgish resident workers.

Geo-statistical analysis of data allows to identify three main groups of students, distinguished by their activities and mobility in the city.

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This paper is investigating current attitudes towards gender roles of a cohort of young people (15-28 years old residing in Luxembourg) based on data collected in the context of the 2009 wave of the Luxembourgish panel EU-SILC/PSELL-3.