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OverviewThe ongoing privatization of pensions - the shift from state to private responsibility for old age retirement income - raises fundamental issues of social and participatory rights. The recent financial market crisis makes the problematic nature of funded private pensions that fall short of expected returns dramatically clear. What have been the experiences in developed multipillar systems? What can be learned for those pensions systems currently under reform? This edited book compares the varieties of pension governance in ten European countries. Contrasting the experience of developed multipillar systems such as Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland with the recent shift toward private occupational and personal pensions in Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. The country chapters investigate how and why old age income responsibilities are being shifted to employers, unions, and individuals. They describe the changing public and private pension mix, and describe the particular features of the private occupational and personal pensions. In particular this book discusses four major questions: who is covered, what kind of benefits, who pays, and who governs? Three comparative analyses provide an additional value, describing the long-term institutional change from public to multipillar pension systems, the variations in regulation and governance of private pensions, and the consequences for income inequality in old age. This book combines the benefits of a reference work - ten up-to-date country studies of major pension systems in Europe - with three cross-national comparative empirical analyses that provide comprehensive information on important aspects of the reform development, societal governance, and social outcomes of pension systems. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Professor of Sociology, University of Mannheim)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.884kg ISBN: 9780199586028ISBN 10: 0199586020 Pages: 468 Publication Date: 03 March 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Comparing Pension Privatization in Europe 1: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe 2: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Mareike Gronwald: The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure Part II: Bismarckian Late-Comers to Multipillar Pension Systems 3: Johan J. De Deken: Belgium: The Paradox of Persisting Voluntarism in a Corporatist Welfare State 4: Marek Naczyk and Bruno Palier: France: Promoting Funded Pensions in Bismarckian Corporatism? 5: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Mareike Gronwald and Tobias Wiß: Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions 6: Matteo Jessoula: Italy: From Bismarckian Pensions to Multipillarization under Adverse Conditions Part III: Emergent Nordic Multipillar Pension Systems 7: Jørgen Goul Andersen: Denmark: The Silent Revolution toward a Multipillar Pension System 8: Olli Kangas and Päivi Luna: Finland: From Statutory Pension Dominance towards Voluntary Private Schemes 9: Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Eskil Wadensjö: Sweden: A Viable Public-Private Pension System Part IV: Mature Multipillar Pension Systems 10: Paul Bridgen and Traute Meyer: Great Britain: Exhausted Voluntarism - The Evolution of Britain's Hybrid Pension Regime 11: Karen M. Anderson: The Netherlands: Adapting a Multipillar Pension System to Demographic and Economic Change 12: Giuliano Bonoli and Silja Häusermann: Switzerland: Regulating a Public-Private Heritage of Multipillar Pension Governance Part V: Comparing Pension Systems and their Outcome 13: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Tobias Wiß: The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe 14: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Jörg Neugschwender: The Public-Private Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in EuropeReviewsAuthor InformationBernhard Ebbinghaus is Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim and Professor of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He was Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, and visiting professor at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Jena. His main research interests are comparative social policy, industrial relations and labour market developments. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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