Pension systems in the European Union and aspects of socio-economic change

Diether Döring
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Diether Döring: Professor of social policy, Akademie der Arbeit, University of Frankfurt.

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 1996, vol. 2, issue 4, 681-698

Abstract: The European Union has different traditions concerning the main concept of social security in general, and of retirement and pension benefits. Different political decisions dictate the range of personal coverage, how benefits are calculated and how the systems are financed. Within this paper, the author will try to distinguish the different types of core systems and will present a rough grouping of twelve national systems. The systems that provide social protection in old age have entered a period of massive socioeconomic change. This includes changes in the structure of employment, and of family life. At the same time, most European countries have become countries of immigration. The author does not intend to make a detailed analysis of these changes themselves, but rather to select elements of them, and examine different types of old age security systems within these changes.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1177/102425899600200408

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