Social Security Reform in Advanced Countries - Evaluating Pension Finance

List of contents

1. Toshihiro Ihori and Toshiaki Tachibanaki Introduction 2. Olivia S. Mitchell Managing Pensions in the Twenty-First Century: Global Lessons and Implications for Japan 3. Mats Persson Five Fallacies in the Social Security Debate 4. Gary Burtless Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S Financial History 5. Hazel Bateman, Suzanne Doyle and John Piggott Private Mandatory Retirement Provision: Design and Implementation Challenges 6. Tatsuo Hatta and Noriyoshi Oguchi Actuarially Fair: A Simulation Analysis 7. Akira Okamoto and Toshiaki Tachibanaki Integration of Tax and Social Security Systems: On the Financing Methods of a Public Pension Scheme in Pay-as-You-Go System 8. Ashwin Kumar Pension Reform in the UK: from Contribution to Participation 9. Kai A. Konrad and Gert G. Wagner Reform of the Public Pension System in Germany 10. Fredrik Haugen, Erik Hernaes and Steinar Strom Pension Systems and Labour Force Participation in the Nordic Countries 11. Hideki Konishi Public Pension Reform and Welfare in an Economy with Adverse Selection 12. Toshihiro Ihori Pensions Contributions and Capital Accumulation Under Modified Funded System

Summary

This book brings together internationally-renowned scholars to evaluate the effect of recent social security reforms in advanced countries (pension programmes in particular) and to suggest policy reforms for the future.

Product details

• Authors: Toshihiro Ihori, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tachibanaki Toshiaki
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2002
• EAN: 9780415282789
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28278-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 720 g
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Economic Policy Issues
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Sociology, Pensions, Business & Economics / General, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Social groups, Social welfare & social services, Social discrimination & inequality, Social welfare and social services, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities