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| - 'Here is the best guide to the turmoil into which European pensions are being plunged. At last, a book that provocatively recasts the debate, written by first-class experts, who expose the complex political and financial dimensions of an issue that, in the long run, is central to all of us in later life.' - Rt. Hon. Frank Field , Member of the UK Parliament, Chairman of the Pensions Reform
Group
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| Description | | - Makes explicit the link between national pension policy and global financial markets.
- Uses a common comparative framework to assess innovations in pensions policy in the advanced economies.
- Provides up-to-date assessments of pension reforms across Europe, the UK, and the US.
| Future pension provision is highly controversial; it juxtaposes the challenges of old age security with the exigencies of global finance.
Clearly, demography, finance and public accountability are crucial to current political debate. But there are other important issues. The problems of paying for the retirement of the baby boom generation has exposed profound differences in the advanced
economies in terms of their financial institutions and infrastructure. Pension security has been re-conceptualised, in part, as an issue of global finance and international comparative advantage bringing with it a re-definition of risk and pension security.
This book examines how major continental European and Anglo-American countries are dealing with these pressures, to what extent these
responses are beginning to redraw the boundaries between public and private responsibility for pension security, and what the implications of public-private partnerships are for the financial organisation and infrastructure of European and global financial markets, and the nation-based welfare state.
The contributors, all involved in policy development in their respective countries, assess the
comparative strengths and weaknesses of recent pension initiatives in the light of continuing fiscal constraints and current market instabilities. Using a tight comparative framework, the book questions assumed divisions between states and markets, as new divisions between public and private spheres of pension responsibility require new regulatory machinery to guarantee future security.
This
book provides a vital reference point in understanding pension security in the 21st century for academics and postgraduates in the social sciences, economics and finance, geography, politics and social policy, policy makers in OECD countries and industry professionals.
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| Contents |
1.
Historical Perspectives and the Politics of Pension Reform: Constructing the Public-Private Divide
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Noel Whiteside
2.
Pensions: The European Debate
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Philippe Pochet
3.
Is there a Dutch way to Pension Reform?
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Bart van Riel, Anton Hemerijck, and Jelle Visser
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Facing the Pension Crisis in France
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Bruno Palier
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A Pension System in Transition: Private Pensions as Partial Substitute for Public Pensions in Germany
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Winfried Schmahl
6.
Pension Reform in Sweden and the Changing Boundaries Between Public and Private
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Joachim Palme
7.
Pension Reform in the United Kingdom: Increasing the Role of Private Provision?
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Carl Emmerson
8.
Restructuring Pensions for the 21st Century: The United States' Social Security Debate
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Alicia H. Munnell
9.
21st Century Pension (In)Security
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Gordon L. Clark
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford and
Noel Whiteside, Professor of Comparative Public Policy and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Governance and Public Management, University of Warwick
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