Pension Systems: Beyond Mandatory Retirement - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843769476 ISBN 13: 9781843769477

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Pension Systems enters into the current lively debate on European pensions. The focus of the book is the analysis of public intervention in individuals' retirement choice, its rationale and the desirability of legislation introducing a sizeable and compulsory increase in retirement age, to face the prospects of swift population ageing.

The book assesses the impact of different retirement rules on individual decisions, on the sustainability of social security systems and on labour market dynamics, and inquires whether mandatory retirement has not become an outdated feature of modern pension systems. The motivations behind public intervention in fixing compulsory retirement rules as well as the likely consequences of allowing the individual a higher responsibility in retirement choices are analysed. These issues are examined both theoretically and empirically and through a focus on country-specific patterns of retirement and on policy issues relevant at the European level. The impact of later retirement on the labour market is also investigated, considering the role of retirement rules in increasing employment.

This comprehensive and topical book will appeal to academics and scholars of public finance as well as pensions experts and organisations.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Elsa Fornero, Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Director, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP), University of Turin and Paolo Sestito, Banca d’Italia – Research Department, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843769476
• ISBN 13: 9781843769477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Fornero Elsa, Sestito Paolo