The varieties of pension governance
Subtitle: pension privatization in Europe
By: edited by Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780199586028
Subjects: Privatization; Old age pensions; Government policy; Investments; Pension trusts
Description: Sustainable and adequate old age pensions in ageing societies have become a major topic on the political agenda. This book describes the shift from public to private pensions and explains the differences across ten European countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- pt. I; title: Comparing Pension Privatization in Europe -- -- 1.; title: Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe  -- Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- 2.; title: The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure  -- Mareike Gronwald -- pt. II; title: Bismarckian Latecomers to Multipillar Pension Systems -- -- 3.; title: Belgium: The Paradox of Persisting Voluntarism in a Corporatist Welfare State  -- Johan J. De Deken -- 4.; title: France: Promoting Funded Pensions in Bismarckian Corporatism?  -- Bruno Palier -- 5.; title: Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions  -- Tobias Wiss -- 6.; title: Italy: From Bismarckian Pensions to Multipillarization under Adverse Conditions  -- Matteo Jessoula -- pt. III; title: Emergent Nordic Multipillar Pension Systems; title: 7.; title: Denmark: The Silent Revolution towards a Multipillar Pension System  -- Jørgen Goul Andersen -- 8.; title: Finland: From Statutory Pension Dominance towards Voluntary Private Schemes  -- Paivi Luna -- 9.; title: Sweden: A Viable Public-Private Pension System  -- Eskil Wadensjo -- pt. IV; title: Mature Multipillar Pension Systems -- -- 10.; title: Britain: Exhausted Voluntarism -- The Evolution of a Hybrid Pension Regime  -- Traute Meyer -- 11.; title: The Netherlands: Adapting a Multipillar Pension System to Demographic and Economic Change  -- Karen M. Anderson -- 12.; title: Switzerland: Regulating a Public-Private Heritage of Multipillar Pension Governance  -- Silja Hausermann -- pt. V; title: Comparing Pension Systems and their Outcome -- -- 13.; title: The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe  -- Tobias Wiss -- 14.; title: The Public-Private Pension Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in Europe -- Jorg Neugschwender.