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Lessons from the Efforts to Manage the Shift Away from Defined Benefit Plans to Defined Contribution Plans in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Brown, Elizabeth F. - 2016

This Article examines what lessons may be learned from examining how Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have tried to manage the shift away from defined benefit plans towards defined contribution plans. This shift has fundamentally changed the relationship between workers and...

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Public Support for Retirement Income Reform

Hicks, Peter - 2012

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Solidarity Against All Odds : Trade Unions and the Privatization of Pensions in the Age of Dualization

Naczyk, Marek - 2015

In an era of fiscal austerity and dualization of social protection, has organized labor become increasingly split along skill and industry lines? Against recent political science accounts of trade union involvement in social policy-making, this paper argues that, in the specific area of...

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Social Protection Dualism, De-Industrialization and Cost Containment

Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin; Saunders, Adam; Naczyk, Marek - 2015

Purpose – European social protection arrangements have undergone significant transformations since the mid-1970s. However, while the existing literature has focused on reforms in public welfare arrangements, an analysis of both public and private social protection is needed to understand the...

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Experiences with occupational pensions in Denmark

Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Pedersen, Torben Möger; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 1, pp. 11-30

This paper focuses on the development of the funded, occupational pension (OP) system in Denmark. Launched in 1987, as a grand agreement between social partners backed by the government, and as part of the collective wage bargaining process, the Danish OP system differs from the set-up in most...

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The Changing Political Economy of Pension Fund Accounting Regulation : A Comparative Study of Four Anglo-American Countries

Klumpes, Paul J. M. - 2011

pension accounting regulation in four Anglo-American countries. A four fold property rights framework is developed which … include inequality in pension provision, the capture of pension regulation through delegation to narrow professional bodies …

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Brexit and the implications for financial services : edited by Patricia Jackson, introduced by Morten Balling, Ernest Gnan and Patricia Jackson; contributions by Franklin Allen, John Armour, Morten Balling, Anthony Belchambers, Jon Danielsson, Ernest Gnan, Charles Grant, Piers Haben, Patricia Jackson, Robert Macrae, Eva Micheler, Menno Middeldorp, Peter Praet, Kathleen Tyson

Jackson, Patricia; Balling, Morten; Gnan, Ernest; … - Conference on "Brexit and the Implications for …; … - 2017

On 23rd February 2017, SUERF and EY organized a conference on "Brexit and the Implications for Financial Services" at EY's offices, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London. While the outcome of the Brexit negotiations remains highly uncertain, the conference discussed the burning questions for...

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Governance, Performance, Costs and Policy Issues : An Analysis of Six Large (Big Six) Public Sector Pension Funds in Canada

Jog, Vijay M. - 2018

pension funds of public sector employees. Canada is no exception. The six largest public-sector pension funds in Canada …

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Financial Regulation and the Courts : A Comparative Study of Judicial Approach in India, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom

2017

Financial regulation is a much debated topic for some time. The history of financial instruments started at a time when …. Financial derivatives are a sub species of financial instruments No internationally accepted principles for regulation of … judiciary regarding the regulation of financial instruments in general and financial derivatives in particular. The US, UK and …

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Pension Provision : Government Failure Around the World

Booth, Philip - 2009

This monograph surveys the results of government intervention in the market for retirement income provision throughout the world. The authors begin by looking at high-income democracies in which governments have, to a large degree, taken over the function of providing pensions. They find that...

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