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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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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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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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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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Pensions and Politics

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2003
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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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Partnership in Pensions? Responses to the Pensions Green Paper [PDF]

, 1999
The government's pensions Green Paper 'a new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions' proposes fundamental changes to the UK's retirement income system. Members of CASE and the Department of Social Policy at LSE have looked at the likely implications of the reforms for pensioner poverty, income security in old age, economic growth, the National ...
Philip Agulnik, Nicholas Barr, Jane Falkingham, Katherine Rake   +3 more
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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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Pensions as Favor and Pensions as Right

Abstract The chapter traces the evolution of pensions, from recompense at all ages to reward at a particular stage of the life course. It describes a shift from favor to right and demonstrates a foreshadowing of modern social questions and the development of ideas of citizenship and entitlement.
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Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions

Journal of European Social Policy, 2022
Igor Guardiancich, Mattia Guidi, Andrea Terlizzi   +2 more
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