Agar is a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice and a Research Fellow of the IFS.
She has investigated the behaviour of individuals and household both in the area of consumption and saving and in the area of labour supply. In particular she is interested in the effects of pension reforms on household’s saving decisions, in retirement choices and in the insurance aspects of pension arrangements.
More recently she has looked at the relationship between health conditions and economic behaviour.
Education
PhD Economics, London School of Economics, 1990
MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics, 1984
We analyse the pattern of work and other labour market states, such as unemployment and out-of-labour-force, over the life course, by making use of a long retrospective panel of older Europeans.
In this paper we discuss the value of international comparative empirical studies within the broad field of the economics of ageing. We argue the value is particularly great when such comparative research is based on long life-history data on participants, collected using large-scale autobiographical life-history methods.
We use life history data covering households in 13 European countries to analyse residential moves past the age of 50. We observe four types of moves: renting to owning, owning to renting, trading up or trading down for homeowners.
Chapter 2 from the book, 'Longer-term Consequences of the Great Recession on the Lives of Europeans', edited by Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber and published by Oxford University Press in May 2014.
