Pension Systems and Retirement Incomes across OECD Countries - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840645636 ISBN 13: 9781840645637

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This timely book provides an authoritative analysis of the pension reform process in nine countries, namely Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and USA, with Japan being covered in the introduction by the editors. The book draws on the work of experts from each of these countries to provide a picture of how the pension systems work in each country.

The contributors examine the policy reform process in each country, against the background of the fiscal stresses arising from the ageing populations in OECD countries. They also analyse whether different types of pension delivery systems (e.g. the public-private mix) generate different standards of living. Each study is prepared according to a common template allowing meaningful analysis of pension delivery and outcomes across countries using similar macroeconomic statistics and microdata.

Pension Systems and Retirement Incomes across OECD Countries is an extremely valuable and empirically sound book on a highly topical subject. It will appeal to scholars of economics, public policy, political science and finance as well as being of great interest to policymakers and practitioners involved in pension fund management.

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About the Author

Edited by Richard Disney, University of Sussex, UK and Paul Johnson, Frontier Economics Ltd, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840645636
• ISBN 13: 9781840645637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Disney Richard, Johnson Paul