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Pensions off?
- Author:
- HIRST Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.3.97, 1997, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that plans to privatise pensions will only benefit a minority of older people. The rest face an increasingly uncertain old age as the state relinquishes its responsibilities for their welfare.
21st century pension (in)security
- Author:
- CLARK Gordon
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford. Oxford Institute of Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The influence of today's massive pension funds is being felt in every capital market in the world. Far from timidity institutional investors are using their influence to engage and in some cases aggressively challenge the management of corporations in which they invest in order to ensure long-term shareholder value for future beneficiaries. This corporate engagement reflects a power shift within the firm away from managers and toward shareholders and the institutional investors who represent them.
Solidarity and tension between age-groups in the United States: challenge for an ageing America in the 21st century
- Authors:
- SILVERSTEIN M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(4), October 2000, pp.270-284.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article argues that intergenerational tensions in the United States reflect a strategy for serving the aged that stresses the underlying values of individualism and self reliance. Using National survey data the article examines the extent to which Americans' view of public responsibility for the aged has shifted between the mid-1980s and late-1990s, a period characterized by the intensification of "generational" politics, as well as a growing hostility toward "big government". The results suggest that growing distrust of government and reluctance to help the poor has indirectly fuelled opposition to public spending on the older population.
Age Concern's comments on the pensions green paper: March 1999
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comments on the Green Paper "A new contact for welfare: Partnerships in pensions". Covers: adequacy standards, minimum income levels, balance between state and private provision, means-testing, the role of the basic pension, crediting carers, provision of information and advice, gender differences.
New welfare mixes in care for the elderly: vol. 3; Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, SVETLIK Ivan
- Publisher:
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 141p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Vienna
A country-by-country examination of welfare provision for older people, focusing in particular on the mix of private and public sector provision. Volume 1 is on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia; volume 2 is on Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel and the Netherlands; volume 3 is on Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
New welfare mixes in care for the elderly: vol. 1; introduction, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, SVETLIK Ivan
- Publisher:
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 93p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Vienna
A country-by-country examination of welfare provision for older people, focusing in particular on the mix of private and public sector provision. Volume 1 is on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia; volume 2 is on Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel and the Netherlands; volume 3 is on Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
New welfare mixes in care for the elderly: vol. 2; Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Netherlands
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, SVETLIK Ivan
- Publisher:
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 121p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Vienna
A country-by-country examination of welfare provision for older people focusing in particular on the mix of private and public sector provision. Volume 1 is on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia; volume 2 is on Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel and the Netherlands; volume 3 is on Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Is there a Dutch way to pension reform?:
- Authors:
- RIEL Bart van, HENERIJCK Anton, VISSER Jelle
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford. Institute of Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
In this paper the authors try to answer three related questions. First, what explains the lack of (parametric) pension reform in the Netherlands in recent years? Second, in the absence of significant pension reforms, what other avenues have Dutch policy makers pursued with regard to the robustness of the Dutch pension system in the face of ageing? Third, in conclusion, does the overall Dutch policy response really suffice in view of important labour market and demographic changes in the 21st century? While there may be no evident need to recast the design of the Dutch pension system, the authors do conjecture that Dutch pensions, because of their high aspiration levels, may come under increasing financial strain in the not too distant future.
A pension system in transition: private pensions as partial substitute to public pensions in Germany?
- Author:
- SCHMAEHL Winfried
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford. Oxford Institute of Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 57p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This paper discusses a new strategy in German pension policy implemented in 2001 and looks at the main instruments and effects. The reform measures are based on a paradigm shift in pension policy, which will change the structure of the German pension scheme. Partial substitution of public pensions by subsidized private and occupational pensions is a core element. The paper outlines the structure of the pension scheme prior to the reform measures and the main objectives for the existing rules. Major arguments framing the public pension debate in Germany and important actors in the pension arena are identified. The instruments for reducing public pension expenditure (especially a new formula for adjusting benefits) as well as the subsidies to stimulate private and occupational pension arrangements are discussed. Employees are now confronted with complex and complicated decisions because of a great variety of possibilities of saving in subsidized forms. There is some doubt whether this will increase saving. The paper also focuses on a number of questions regarding income distribution related to the new strategy of partial substitution of public by private pensions as well as on the future development of the German pension scheme and on conflicts that may result from this strategy.
Constructing the public-private divide: historical perspectives and the politics of pension reform
- Author:
- WHITESIDE Noel
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford. Institute of Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
In contrast to many European countries, UK pension policy has long sought to preserve private pension provision, initially through the promotion of occupational pension schemes and more recently with the development of state-sponsored personal pensions. This paper examines the record theoretically, historically and comparatively. It argues first, that arguments favouring public choice as the basis for old age income security are inherently flawed because they fail to recognise the role played by convention and law in sustaining and developing common knowledge and confidence – the essential bases for economic action on which individual choice relies. As conventions of market activity vary by place, by product and over time, there is a constant need to define and refine their public legitimacy, without which the collective confidence necessary for economic action disappears. Second, the paper offers an historical account of how public-private pension ‘partnerships’ were first established in the UK in the 1960s. Contrary to what we might expect, Old Labour was more conscious of the importance of preserving established conventions governing occupational and private provision than their New Labour successors have been. Recent extensions in regulatory surveillance expose the contradictions that result when governments attempt to extend market solutions as a substitute for public services. Finally, contrasting UK experience of earnings-related schemes with their European counterparts, the paper shows how different conventions have shaped different roles for the state in earnings-related pension provision, resulting in varied typologies of public-private mix. Under recent demographic and fiscal pressure, previous divisions between public and private have become increasingly complex as governments move to regulate personal pension savings as a necessary supplement to statutory schemes. However, in contrast to careful collective negotiation found elsewhere, changing conventions imposed by recent British governments have shattered public confidence and provoked inaction. Future pensioner poverty appears very likely unless politicians first accept that private provision will never replace public pensions and (secondly) are prepared to negotiate a settlement that promotes collective confidence among all agencies and the whole population.