Reforming public pensions
Subtitle: sharing the experiences of transition in OECD countries.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: Emerging economies transition
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Social security -- Europe -- Congresses.; Old age pensions -- Europe -- Congresses.; Pensions -- Europe -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers from a seminar on "Practical Lessons in Pension Reform: Sharing the Experience of Transition in OECD Countries," held in Warsaw on 27 and 28 May 2002.
Also available on the Internet.