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Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income [electronic resource] : Essays on Social Security
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyde, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pensions--Government policy.
- Privatization.
- Retirement income--Government policy.
- Social security--Government policy.
- Social security.
- Privatization--Government policy.
- Pensions.
- Retirement income.
- Local Subjects:
- Pensions--Government policy.
- Privatization.
- Retirement income--Government policy.
- Social security--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2198-X
- OCLC:
- 818851307
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