Ageing and Employment Policies Vieillissement et politiques de lemploi: Sweden 2003 With rapidly aging populations old age pension reform and early retirement schemes alone may not suffice to provide adequate employment opportunities. Additional measures will clearly be needed on wage scales job discrimination skills acquisition and working conditions. Attitudes will also have to change about working later in life. Little is known however about what countries have been or should be doing on those issues. This report on Sweden begins a series of around 20 OECD country reports intended to fill the gap. Each contains a survey of the main employment barriers confronting older people an assessment of existing remedial measures and policy recommendations for further action.