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How well does a partnership in pensions really work? — the Israeli public/private pension mix
Author(s)	John Gal
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 22, part 2, March 2002
Pages	pp 161-183
Keywords	Pensions ; Private pensions ; Social security [generally] ; Social policy ; Comparison ; Israel ; United Kingdom.
Annotation	The old-age pension system in Israel is used as a test case to examine the implications of proposals for pension reform now being debated or implemented in many welfare states. For over a decade, the notion of moving towards a changing 'partnership in pensions' - or, to put it more bluntly, greater privatisation of social security - has been high on the agenda of decision-makers at both national and international levels. Virtually since its emergence in the 1950s, the Israeli old-age pension has been based primarily upon a mix of low universal state pensions and income-related private occupational pensions. This paper compares the British and Israeli social security systems for older people in the wake of the reforms recently introduced in Britain, and analyses the implications of the Israeli structure on the distribution of social security spending and on the wellbeing of different categories of older individuals. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020708202 A
Classmark	JJ: JK: TYA: TM2: 48: 7H6: 8
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