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Actual Retirement Age
Actuarial Fairness
Actuarial Neutrality
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Ageing Burden
Author_Bernd Marin
Basic Safety Net
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comparative welfare systems
defined
demographic transition
disability
Disability Benefit Recipients
Disability Benefits
Disability Welfare
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Equivalized Household Income
expectancy
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intergenerational equity
invalidity
Invalidity Pension
labour market participation
legal
Legal Retirement Age
life
Life Expectancy Gains
Notional Defined Contribution
Notional Defined Contribution System
Pension Reform
Pension Wealth
pensions
population ageing policy challenges
Prime Age Groups
Prime Age Groups
residual
Residual Life Expectancy
retirement
Retirement Age
Robert Holzmann
SNA
social insurance reform
social policy analysis
Social Security Institutions
UN
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781138467613
- Weight: 1460g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying a weekly contribution; in return, benefits would be paid to anyone who was sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. The modern welfare state, therefore, is about maintaining a delicate equilibrium between dependent social groups on the one hand and the active working classes on the other. In the case of old-age security, this balance is being achieved (or not) by the so-called Generation Contract. This social pact is more of an implicit, unwritten and unspecified social contract. This ground-breaking book demonstrates how countries are addressing population-ageing challenges in depth, using the case study of Austria to gain the required complexity and differentiation in a comparative European framework of empirical evidence. This is a broad social science study in political economy and sociology, not an economic analysis. Though focusing on pensions, it centres on the (im)balance between work and non-work, issues of health, work ability, employability, and benefit receipt from old-age security to disability allowance. It will be required reading for all sociologists and social policy experts and academics working within this area.
Bernd Marin is Executive Director of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna, Austria.
