Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income Essays on Social Security
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Edwin Mellen Press
2010
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| Beschreibung: | COMPARING HOW VARIOUS NATIONS ADMINISTER RETIREMENT INCOME: Essays on Social Security, Privatisation, and Inter-Generational Covenants; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- The Social Dimension and Social Security:A Developing Agenda; Chapter 2 -- Retirement Provision in the United States: From Welfare Pluralism to Welfare Consumerism; Chapter 3 -- The Moral Case for Social Security Privatisation in the United States; Chapter 4 -- United States Pension Funds' Labour Friendly Investments Chapter 5 -- The Intergenerational Covenant: Rights and ResponsibilitiesChapter 6 -- Mandated Private Pensions: The Alternative; Chapter 7 ""Divine"" Benefits: The Role of Employers in Meeting Future Retirees' Needs; Chapter 8 -- Solidarity Revisited: Collective Agreements on Pensions in Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Germany; Chapter 9 -- Risk and Trust in the Context of the United Kingdom Private Pension Arrangements; Chapter 10 -- Retirement Provision and Social Inequality: The Swiss Three-Pillar Approach Chapter 11 -- Pension Market Failure in Chile: Foundations, Analysis and Policy ReformsChapter 12 -- From Redistribution to Regulation: Regulating Private Old-Age Pensions as a New Challenge in Ageing Societies; Appendix: Industrial Agreements in Western Europe; References; Index This book makes an innovative contribution to the field of retirement income security in three distinctive ways. First, it seeks to develop a sophisticated philosophical rationale for the social dimension, in the context of retirement. Such a rationale is frequently implicit in much of the relevant literature, and where explicit, is often crudely developed. Second, it seeks to identify robustly the ways in which specific forms of privatisation promote outcomes that are consistent with the social dimension, whilst acknowledging the possibility of market failure. Third, it seeks to provide an ag |
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| ISBN: | 9780773421981 077342198X |