Securing Pension Provision
The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement
Authors: Blair, Catherine
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- About this book
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By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries.
- About the authors
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Catherine Blair has held a variety of roles in pension and employment policy in the British civil service, and has also worked for a number of years at the European Commission. She was educated at the University of Oxford and the College of Europe in Bruges before completing her Doctorate at the University of Bremen.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Ordering Chaos
Pages 12-21
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Changing Ages
Pages 22-32
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Beyond Convergence and Divergence: Choosing the Cases
Pages 33-36
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Early Birds and Laggards? A Comparison of the USA and France
Pages 38-63
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Securing Pension Provision
- Book Subtitle
- The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement
- Authors
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- Catherine Blair
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-45397-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137453976
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-45396-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 152
- Topics
