Youth Employment Insecurity and Pension Adequacy

Edited by Dirk Hofäcker and Kati Kuitto

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Abstract: This timely and perceptive book addresses the issues surrounding the adequacy of old-age income for future pensioners worldwide. It highlights how today’s young people are confronted with the simultaneous challenges of increasing employment uncertainty and declining pension generosity – topics which are highly relevant in contemporary welfare states.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781802208573
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to Youth Employment Insecurity and Pension Adequacy , pp 1-13

Dirk Hofäcker and Kati Kuitto

Ch 2 Youth and pensions in a European comparison - how pension systems consider early adulthood and life course uncertainties , pp 15-30

Susan Kuivalainen, Antti Mielonen and Niko Väänänen

Ch 3 The impact of discontinuity - how unemployment shapes outcomes in voluntary pension schemes , pp 31-49

Dina Frommert

Ch 4 Self-employment and the risk of poverty in old age - what's the role of pension systems in Europe? , pp 50-69

Julia Höppner

Ch 5 Manifesting future disadvantage - class, gender and pension accrual of the low-educated young in Europe , pp 70-89

Traute Meyer

Ch 6 Employment in youth and pension accumulation in Finland - how recent pension reforms account for early career employment , pp 90-104

Ilari Ilmakunnas and Kati Kuitto

Ch 7 Labour market insecurities of younger couples and homeownership in later adulthood in Germany: how important is couples' and gendered risk aversion in the decision process? , pp 105-124

Sophia Fauser and Sonja Scheuring

Ch 8 The social, cultural and economic influences on retirement saving for young adults in the UK , pp 126-144

Ellie Suh and Hayley James

Ch 9 Attitudes of young workers towards the private pension system in Turkey , pp 145-161

Müge Gülmez Korkmaz

Ch 10 Youth informal employment in Arab States - exclusion and exit , pp 162-180

Walid Merouani

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