Fawcett, Helen (2002) Pension reform in the UK: re-casting the public/private mix in pension provision 1997-2000. In: European Consortium for Political Research. Workshop 21: The Politics of Pension Reform. European Consortium for Political Research (21). European Consortium for Political Research, Turin, Italy.
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Abstract
The UK is one of the few countries in Europe that is not facing a serious pension crisis. The reasons for this are straight forward: state pensions (both in terms of replacement ratio and as a proportion of average earnings) are among the lowest in Europe, the UK has a long-standing funded private pension sector ... and its governments have, since the beginning of the 1980s, taken measures to prevent a pension crisis developing. These measures have involved making systematic cuts in unfunded state pension provisions and increasingly transferring the burden of providing pensions to the funded private sector, principally on a defined contribution basis.
| Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 1791 |
| Keywords: | pensions, welfare state, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social pathology. Social and public welfare, Sociology |
| Subjects: | Political Science > Political institutions (Europe) > Great Britain Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > Politics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2006 |
| Last modified: | 16 Mar 2012 19:28 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1791 |
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