International Perspectives on Supplementary Pensions: Actors and Issues

by Lucy apRoberts, Bryn Davies, Gerard Hughes, Emmanuel Reynaud

Overview

This international comparison of pension plans lends great understanding to the transformation taking place in almost every nation around the world. It covers ten of the twelve countries of the European Union, as well as the United States and Japan. The project is interdisciplinary, covering a number of fields, such as economics, law, actuarial science, sociology, and political science, that contribute to the analysis of retirement income systems. The chapters vary in scope - some are comparative, some are restricted to a single country or to one type of plan in one country. Despite their diversity, the chapters share a common awareness of three aspects of pension plans: the importance of actors' roles in shaping each system, the different economic and social domains affected by retirement plans, and the interconnections between social security and supplementary plans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899309675
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1996
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

EMMANUEL REYNAUD is a researcher in Paris, where he works on international comparisons of retirement systems. He is the French reporter for the European Commission's observatory on Complementary Social Security Schemes, and is a member of the committee of experts of the French Observatoire des retraites. He is the author of the OECD country report on private pensions in France and of a book in French on the retirement systems of the United States, Germany, and the United Kindgom.

LUCY apROBERTS is a researcher on the economics of social welfare at the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) in Paris. Her work focuses on the links between state-run social insurance and occupational benefit plans in the United States and France. She is coauthor, with Emmanuel Reynaud, of Les Systemes de Retraite a L'Etranger.

BRYN DAVIES is an actuary in the United Kindgom. He provides advice to trade unions on supplementary pension plans. He is the author of a recent report from the Institute of Public Policy Research entitled Better Pensions for All.

GERARD HUGHES is an economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. He has acted as a consultant to the OECD on pensions and labor market issues and is the author of the OECD country report on private pensions in Ireland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Tables
Preface: Lucy apRoberts and Emmanuel Reynaud
Actors and Decision Making
Introduction by Emmanuel Reynaud
Supplementary Pensions in the Federal Republic of Germany by Winfried SchMÄhl and Stefan Böhm
Supplementary Pensions in the Netherlands by Erik Lutjens
Supplementary Pensions in Greece by Hélène Petridou
Supplementary Pensions in Spain: The Impact of the 1987 Law by Luis J. Ruano Ruano
The Origins of French Supplementary Pension Plans by Bernard Friot
Trade Union Involvement in Supplementary Pensions by Bryn Davies
Reforms and Systems Dynamics
Introduction by Gerard Hughes
Financing Models for Pay-as-You-Go Systems by Emmanuel Reynaud
Risk Bearing in Pension Plans by John A. Turbaner
The Many Faces of American Union Pension Plans by Teresa Ghilarducci
Retirement System Reform: Is Italy Moving Toward a Minimal Welfare State? by Ugo Ascoli
The Development of Supplementary Pensions in Denmark by Finn Østrup
Retirement and Growing Old: Which Model of Protection? by Bernard Delhausse, Sergio Perelman, and Pierre Pestieau
The Labor Market
Introduction by Bryn Davies
Pension Plans and U.S. Labor Market Theories by Lucy apRoberts
Pension Plans and Labor Market Structure: Evidence from Ireland by Gerard Hughes and Brian Nolan
Labor Mobility and Supplementary Pensions by Heinz-Dietrich Steinmeyer
Financing The Economy
Introduction by Lucy apRoberts
The Behavior of British and U.S. Pension Fund Financial Managers by Dorothée Rivaud-Danset
Pension Funds as Shareholders by Jim Stewart
Pension Funds in the United Kingdom: Centralization and Control by Richard Minns and Ron Martin
Selected References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Complements the many studies of government social security programs by focusing on the retirement income systems established by employers and labor unions in Europe and the US. The 18 papers cover actors and decision making, reforms and system dynamics, the labor market, and financing the economy. Specific topics include pension funds as shareholders, labor mobility, risk bearing, and alternative models of retiring and growing old. Distributed in the US by Greenwood. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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