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| Pension reforms in Europe and life-course politics | | Author(s) | Robert Maier, Willibrord de Graaf, Patricia Frericks |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 41, no 5, October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 487-504 |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Social policy ; Life span ; Theory ; Europe. |
| Annotation | In recent years, somewhat drastic pension reforms have taken place in all European countries. The pension systems developed in the last century are no longer considered to be suited to the changing demographic constellations in European countries, and the financial sustainability of these systems is under threat. Moreover, the changing political and economic set-up in European countries is also used to justify reforming the different pension systems. Different reasons can be given to explain the various pension reform measures without, however, there being any integrated coherence. It is suggested that a politics of social policy, and of pension policy in particular, based on a life-course perspective, facilitates the understanding of the whole range of pension reform measures. Such a life-course perspective integrates sequences of learning, working and caring considered necessary for the policy. In other words, it is based on a conception of human potential, and it integrates, to some extent, the previously separate domains of labour market policy, education policy, care policy and pension policy. However, recent theoretical and empirical studies of the life course lead to a critical evaluation of the new standard biography, with the conclusion that the new standard is one-sided and scientifically unsound, entailing challenges for social policy. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070927210 A |
| Classmark | JJ: TM2: BG6: 4D: 74 |
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