"This ninth volume of the International Social Security series, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of 12 developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since the project began, a dramatic decline in men's...

Introduction / by Lone Riisgaard, Nina Torm, and Winnie Mitullah -- Formal social protection and informal workers in Kenya and Tanzania: From residual towards universal models? / by Nina Torm, Godbertha Kinyondo, Winnie Mitullah, and Lone Riisgaard -- The relationship between association...

1. Between formality and informality: aiding strategies for the needy. The social support systems in Northern Italy -- 2. Between social support and establishment of social identities: the system of giving in the diocese of Tortona in the XVIII century -- 3. Social support systems in medieval...

1 Tindara Addabbo, Olga Rymkevich - Introduction -- Section 1: The evolving notion of autonomy and its consequences on social protection: A Theoretical Frame -- 1. Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri - Autonomy in and beyond the Employment Relationship: an Organizational Perspective -- 2. Manos...

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities - financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth...

Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises. At the same time, economic crises are believed to lead to an increase of debt. This book, through a range of contributors, explores certain constituents of an economy and...