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Pensions panorama : retirement-income systems in 53 countries
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ISBN: 0821367641 9786610643592 9264032118 1280643595 082136765X 9780821367643 9780821367650 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Reforming pensions in a fiscally and socially sustainable way is a central issue in developing and developed countries alike. This report, produced in collaboration by the OECD and the World Bank, addresses some of the key questions underlying the debate and provides the basis for a new, consistent, approach to the empirical analysis of pension systems and entitlements around the world.  


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Pension systems in the European Union : competition and tax aspects
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ISBN: 9041197524 Year: 1999 Volume: 7 Publisher: The Hague Kluwer law international


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The outlook on supplementary pensions in the context of demographic, economic and social change.
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ISBN: 928280254X Year: 1997 Volume: 1996 Publisher: Luxembourg Office for official publications of the European communities


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Pensions and pension funding : critical perspectives on the world economy
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ISBN: 9780415384322 041538432X 9780415384339 9780415384346 9780415384353 9780415384360 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Routledge

The imaginary time bomb : why an ageing population is not a social problem
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ISBN: 186064452X Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York I.B. Tauris

Unfunded pension systems : ageing and migration.
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ISBN: 0444517324 9786610966141 1849508267 1280966149 0080474675 9780080474670 9780444517326 Year: 2004 Volume: 264 Publisher: Amsterdam Elsevier

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Pension systems in most industrialised countries are unfunded, i.e. they are pay-as-you-go financed and thus depend on a well-balanced ratio (old) recipients to (young) contributors. This so-called dependency ratio will worsen significantly in the next few decades due to two developments: ageing of the population and increased labour mobility. This book analyses the viability of unfunded pension systems in the presence of the projected demographic evolution. The analysis focuses on questions concerning: efficiency considerations and the possibility of welfare improvements; political economy aspects and the feasibility of reforms, and; the process of European integration and its influence on national pension systems. The theoretical analysis is complemented in numerous ways by quantitative parts and institutional details. The consequences of the demographic crisis for the distribution of the pension burden within and across generations and in an international context are illustrated with respect to the specific situation in Germany and other European countries. It is shown for different settings of political power distribution and for different degrees of mobility what would happen without any reforms and what could and should be done to guarantee the survival of old-age security based on a fair sharing of the pension burden. Neither explosion nor erosion is the inevitable fate of unfunded pension systems. But to avoid either happening, fundamental reforms are necessary as soon as possible which loosen at least partially the intergenerational dependencies and thus reduce the pressure from the changing population structure on old-age security.

Reforming public pensions : sharing the experiences of transition and OECD countries.
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ISBN: 9264105808 9786610170562 1280170565 9264105816 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris OECD

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Reforms to pension policies inevitably face challenges and potential trade-offs. These include the desirability of providing adequate replacement income and tackling problems of poverty in old age; the imbalance between time spent in work and in retirement; the appropriate mix of different forms of retirement income provisions; the labour market implications of different approaches to financing pensions; and the potential complexities of meeting short-term and long-term policy objectives. This book addresses these and other issues through a critical appraisal of the practical lessons of public pension reforms over the past decade in Central and Eastern Europe, and how they compare with reforms in other OECD member countries. Countries covered include the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, the Russian Federation and Lithuania, as well as Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. 1. Motivations, purposes and processes of pension reforms.- 2. Policy choice and constraints.- 3. The well-being of older people and the distributional consequences of pension reform.- 4. implementation of pension reform proposals.

Pension reform in six countries : what can we learn from each other?
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ISBN: 3540417141 3642625924 3642566960 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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AxeI Borsch-Supan and Meinhard Miegel The provision of retirement income is a dynamic system that needs to be adapted constantly to the ever changing economic and societal environment. Sometimes, incremental adaptations suffice; sometimes, however, larger reform steps are necessary. We see this evolutionary process both through history and across countries. Over and again societies are confronted with new challenges, not the least with respect to old age social security. At this juncture of history, almost all industrialized countries face rapid population aging and need. to adapt their pension systems to this historically unprecedented demographic change. The six countries in this study (Chile, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States) have responded very differently to this new challenge. This is the point of departure for this book. Why did the countries respond so differently? What can we learn from each other? It is not the point of this book to provide a universally optimal solution to the pension problems caused by population aging. The six countries are simply too different in terms of their demographic and cultural, and in particular in terms of their historical and economic backgrounds. However, since national discussions tend to be surprisingly narrowly focussed even in times of globalization, there is much to learn by looking over the neighbor' s fence. And since some countries have reformed earlier than others, we even have the benefit of quite a few trials and errors in one country from which all other countries can learn.

The economics of pensions : principles, policies, and international experience
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ISBN: 0521552303 9780521552301 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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