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Comparing occupational welfare in Europe
— the case of occupational pensions | | Author(s) | Emmanuele Pavolini, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 52, no 2, March 2018 |
| Publisher | Wiley, March 2018 |
| Pages | pp 477-490 |
| Source | http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spol |
| Keywords | Private pensions ; Retirement policy ; Public finances ; Social economics ; Comparison ; Austria ; Italy ; Spain ; Sweden ; Netherlands ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The article provides an assessment to what extent reforms of occupational pensions (OPs) have fostered a "risk shift" or increased social protection dualism across countries. The essay focuses on workers, whilst previous research primarily analysed provision for current pensioners. The empirical analysis confirms that in countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden, increased private pension or (OP) provision does not necessarily lead towards social protection dualism and comprehensive risk shifts. Britain continues to be characterised by strong social protection dualism and entrenched social divides, creating "social policy enclaves". Divisions of welfare are also very likely to be a feature of the German pension system in the future. The latter two countries have witnessed clear risk shifts and processes of dualisation. The pension systems in Austria, Italy, and Spain have not witnessed paradigm changes, and continue to be primarily based on public or statutory pension schemes. The idea that multi-pillarisation in itself fosters major risk shifts and dualisation has to be reconsidered. Under specific conditions, encompassing OPs can be functionally equivalent to public pension schemes. However, countries relying on voluntarism with regard to OPs coverage tend to witness processes of dualisation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180309209 A |
| Classmark | JK: G5: WN5: W4: 48: 76A: 76V: 76S: 76P: 76H: 8 |
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