Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences lecturer and UIC Barcelona Research Institute for Evaluation and Public Policies research member, ​​Manuel Flores, participated in the International Social Security Conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) held 2 and 3 June.

Flores participated as a member of the Spanish team led by Sergi Jiménez, from the Pompeu Fabra University, along with Pilar García-Gómez from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Judit Vall from the Universitat de Barcelona.

The International Social Security Conference is part of a project that began in the late 90s and studies the effects of demographic aging in several advanced countries. The project evaluates the social protection system reforms that have been implemented in all the countries under study, giving special emphasis to pension reforms and to senior unemployment and disability.

The International Social Security Conference addressed the main challenges of social security systems in light of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and fiscal imbalances, rising energy prices or new inequalities, among other issues.

Manuel Flores also participated in the 42nd Health Economics Meeting as a member of the Scientific Committee, where he moderated the plenary session “Economics of Dementia: Beyond Catastrophic Forecasts”, given by Adelina Comas Herrera of the London School of Economics.