Rethinking the Welfare State

Edited by Martin Rein and Winfried Schmähl

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Abstract: In this book a distinguished group of contributors discuss the changing political economy of pension reform. They focus on those countries which have launched a significant reframing of their pension system. Each chapter provides a detailed review of recent pension reforms and offers institutional evidence of the extent to which these reforms suggest a redirection of the welfare state towards a more public-private mix of policies. The countries were selected to represent the variety of new directions which mature industrial countries as well as countries in transition have taken.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781843761020
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks

David Blake

Ch 2 The Relationship between the Role of the Corporate Pension and the Public Pension Plan in Japan

Yukiko M. Katsumata

Ch 3 Reforming Pensions: The Australian Experience

Peter Whiteford

Ch 4 The Institutionalization of the Swiss Multi-pillar Pension System

Giuliano Bonoli

Ch 5 The Quality of the Dutch Pension System: Will it be Sustainable in the Twenty-first Century?

Leny H. van der Heiden-Aantjes

Ch 6 Paradigm Shift in German Pension Policy: Measures Aiming at a New Public–Private Mix and their Effects

Winfried Schmähl

Ch 7 Individual Accounts and the Continuing Debate over Social Security Reform in the United States

Barry L. Friedman

Ch 8 Public Pension Reform and Contractual Agreements in Sweden: From Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution

Edward Palmer and Eskil Wadensjö

Ch 9 How Societies Mix Public and Private Spheres in their Pension Systems

Martin Rein and John Turner

Ch 10 Whose Money is it Anyhow? Governance and Social Investment in Collective Investment Funds

R.Kent Weaver

Ch 11 Home-made Pension Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the Evolution of the World Bank Approach to Modern Pension Systems

Michał Rutkowski

Ch 12 Public and Private Mix in the Polish Pension System

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

Ch 13 Conflicting Interests in Shaping Hungary's New Private Pension Scheme

Júlia Szalai

Ch 14 Latin American and East European Pension Reforms: Accounting for a Paradigm Shift

Katharina Müller

Ch 15 The Public–Private Mix of Retirement Income in Nine OECD Countries: Some Evidence from Micro Data and an Exploration of its Implications

Bernard H. Casey and Atsuhiro Yamada

Ch 16 Income Packaging and Economic Wellbeing in the Last Stage of the Working Career

Martin Rein and Heinz Stapf-Finé

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