pensions or on social assistance benefits. The recent pension reforms in a number of these countries have increased the … early retirement pensions). Such policy incentives will enable workers to avoid the phenomenon of a ‘cliff-edge’ fall into …

Successive reforms enacted since the 1990s have dramatically changed Europe’s pensions landscape. This paper tries to … inadequate, particularly in Eastern European countries. Similarly while the generosity of minimum pensions appears to have either … impact of price indexation on the relative adequacy of state pensions is becoming even more substantial in view of the …

future development of state pensions, arguing that their combined effect is to restore something like a flat rate state … contribution records. This leaves a choice for the remaining sixth of National Insurance benefits: to separate out state pensions …

This article outlines the recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, and the data and analysis on which they were … system. The Commission concluded that without reform, structural problems with UK pensions would lead to increasingly … have now largely been adopted by the UK government, imply eventual increases both in state spending on pensions as a share …