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Credible Pensions*

Fiscal Studies, 2005
One of the main problems in pension policy is to develop an institutional framework that guarantees that public and private pensions promises are kept. This paper discusses how the governance of public and private pensions is key to making such promises credible.
Timothy Besley, Andrea Prat
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Preying on pensions

Nursing Standard, 1988
Nurses have been warned about 'unscrupulous' insurance salesmen who may be persuading them to opt out of the NHS superannuation scheme under the new pension laws.
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Pensions and Pension Schemes

2019
This chapter presents the main concepts and themes in the economics of pensions, including types of pensions and characteristics of alternative pension schemes. Other topics included are pension wealth accumulation and the discussion around pensions and implicit taxation paid work.
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Pension Adequacy and the Pension Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2011
AbstractIt has long been accepted that the adequacy of payments is a key objective of any social security system, where adequacy is defined as the ability of a payment to support a basic acceptable standard of living that is consistent with prevailing community standards. The 2009 Harmer Pension Review directed attention to the adequacy of the pension,
Peter Saunders, Melissa Wong
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Pensions and Politics

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2003
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Pension Reform and the Welfare of Pensioners

Fiscal Studies, 2005
With extraordinarily good timing, the Economics section of the British Association, meeting in Exeter in September 2004, chose to look at pension reform. The newspapers were full of stories about the forthcoming Turner Report on pension reform. At the event, which was organised by Richard Blundell, President of the Economics section in 2004 and ...
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A critical perspective on pension accounting, pension research and pension terminations

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1992
Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the implications of pension accounting principle changes in the 1980s for conflicts involving ownership of pension surpluses and distribution of wealth between shareholders and employees. Pension accounting measurement and disclosure issues are related to pension terminations in the mid 1980s which ...
Sara Ann Reiter, Thomas Omer
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Pensions and Pensioners in War and Depression

2000
Abstract The state pension, low and means-tested though it was, gave a regular and secure income to a higher proportion of old people than the poor relief system had ever done. It rescued some of them from painful and degrading labour, enabled more of them to keep independent households, and assisted families to support ageing ...
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Pension reform, personal pensions and gender differences in pension coverage

World Development, 1998
Abstract The Personal Pension Scheme introduced in Chile in 1981 has acquired a paradigmatic role for pension reform in less developed and developed countries. In contrast to the significant gender gap in private pension coverage observed in developed countries, in Chile women's participation in the personal pension scheme is marginally higher than ...
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Pensions in Europe, European Pensions

2009
Pension policy represents in many respects the corner stone of the contemporary European welfare states. And its reform has emerged as a key issue in most of the European countries. This book aims at improving the knowledge of the long-term and more recent evolution of retirement programmes and their regulation at national and supranational level.
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