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Inventing Retirement - The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain

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Klappentext This 1986 book examines why old-age saving became rooted in the employment contract. Zusammenfassung Pension funds now account for a large portion of old-age incomes! of capital ownership! and of employee fringe benefits. This book! first published in 1986! examines the interplay of business! political and social forces in this profound transformation! showing why old-age saving became rooted in the employment contract. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Preface; Part I. The Rise of Pensioning: 1. Savings, work and old age in Victorian Britain; 2. Rival pioneers of collectivism: pensions, the state and employers (1899-1927); 3. The insurance challenge (1927-56); 4. The state: partner or competitor? (1940-78); 5. Competition and professionalisation: the maturing of the pension market (1956-79); Part II. The Shaping of the Modern Pensions Institution: 6. Accident and design in the evolution of pensions; 7. Pensions in peril? security, solvency and vesting; 8. Designing the benefit structure; 9. Retirement: age discrimination or the fruits of prosperity?; Epilogue; Statistical appendix; A note on sources; Notes; Index.

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Authors Leslie Hannah, Hannah Leslie
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.10.2009
 
EAN 9780521121552
ISBN 978-0-521-12155-2
No. of pages 216
Subjects Guides > Law, job, finance
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics

Pensions, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, macroeconomics, United Kingdom, Great Britain

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