Social security pension reform in Europe:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2002
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Papers presented at a conference held in Berlin, Germany in March of 2000
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Pensions and contemporary socioeconomic change / Assar Lindbeck -- Different approaches to pension reform from an economic point of view / Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise -- Labor mobility, redistribution, and pension reform in Europe / Alain Jousten, Pierre Pestieau -- France: the difficult path to consensual reforms / Didier Blanchet, Florence Legros -- The German pension system: status quo and reform options / Bert Rurup -- Swedish pension reform: how did it evolve, and what does it mean for the future? Edward Palmer -- Italy: a never-ending pension reform / Daniele Franco -- Prefunding in a defined benefit pension system: the Finnish case / Jukka Lassila, Tarmo Valkonen -- Pension reform: issues in the Netherlands / Jeroen J.M. Kremers -- The United Kingdom: examining the switch from low public pensions to high-cost private pensions / David Blake -- Poland: security through diversity / Jerzy Hausner -- The Hungarian pension reform: a preliminary assessment of the first years of implementation / Roberta Rocha, Dimitri Vittas -- Romania's pension system: from crisis to reform / Georges de Menil, Eytan Sheshinski -- Recent developments in old age pension systems: an international overview / Klaus-Jurgen Gern
Social Security in the United States and in Europe is at a critical juncture. Through the essays assembled in Social Security Pension Reform in Europe, Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert, along with a number of distinguished contributors, discuss the challenges facing Social Security reform in the aging societies of Europe. A remarkable range of European nations-Germany, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Hungary-have implemented or are about to implement mixed Social Security systems that combine a traditional defined benefit of the pay-a
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 500 pages)
ISBN:9780226241913
0226241912

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