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Pensions, pensioners and pensions policy
— financial security in UK retirement savings? | | Author(s) | Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Richard Blundell |
| Corporate Author | Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC); Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) |
| Publisher | Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Swindon, 2004 |
| Pages | 20 pp (ESRC Seminar series - Mapping the public policy landscape) |
| Source | ESRC, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1UJ. http://www.esrc.ac.uk/policyseminar |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Social policy ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | This report on a seminar on pensions, held in March 2004, is the third in a series in which the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) presents independent research in key policy areas to potential users in government, politics, the media and voluntary workers. Three key questions which underpin the design of the pensions system are considered. Firstly, is the financial support offered to pensioners by the state in retirement sustainable in terms of the burden it places on the working population? Secondly, are the mechanisms by which the private financial sector helps people save for retirement sustainable in their apportionment of risk between employers and employees? Thirdly, is the way in which the state and private systems interact sustainable, in the sense that the combination promises pensioners a reasonable degree of financial security without creating unduly powerful disincentivies for them to work and save? (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040817212 B |
| Classmark | JJ: TM2: 6M |
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