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Reforming pensions in Europe
— evolution of pension financing and sources of retirement income | | Author(s) | Gerard Hughes, Jim Stewart |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004 |
| Pages | 305 pp |
| Source | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Glensanda House, Montpellier Parade, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 1UA. www.e-elgar.com |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Income [older people] ; Social policy ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Since the early 1990s, countries in the European Union (EU) and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. This book is based on papers presented at the European Network for Research on Supplementary Pensions (ENRSP) and l'Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES) conference, "Shifting the Foundations: Evolution of Pensions Financing and Sources of Retirement Income" held in Paris in October 2002. Issues and debates in Part I discuss: the consequences of the 2001 Pensions Reform Act in Germany; whether the UK's pensions objectives are attainable; pension privatisation in Hungary and Poland; and labour costs, social security and employee severance funds. Part II provides a comparative assessment of reform in OECD countries; an analysis of retired people's sources of income in Ireland; evidence on the cost of encouraging greater private provision of pensions in the UK and the US; and evaluation of the effects of reforms on older people's incomes in France, Germany and Sweden. Part III examines the broad principles on which pensions policy is based in the context of changing forms of solidarity, including the concept of "intergenerational equity" in pension policy and reform. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040310201 B |
| Classmark | JJ: JF: TM2: 74 |
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