We stress that the demographic changes that Europe will face in the coming decades will have profound consequences not only for the sustainability but also for the adequacy of social security schemes, including pensions. Our paper aims at assessing the consequences of the Ageing Working Group...

Every three years, the European Commission and the Social Protection Committee publish a Pension Adequacy Report, which provides an overview of the current and future adequacy of old-age incomes in EU Member States. A crucial indicator of adequacy is the at-risk-of-poverty rate of older people....