Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Equity and solidarity across the generations; 2 The redistributive effects of generational transfers; 3 Complementarity between private and public transfers; 4 Wealth distribution between generations; 5 Families apart?; 6 Generational relations and the law; 7 Discontinuous change and generational contracts; 8 Gender, the generational contract and pension privatisation; 9 Trail-blazers and path-followers; 10 The transmission of life stories from ethnic minority fathers to their children
11 Reinventing the generational contract12 Continuity and change; Index
Summary
The collection addresses theoretical and policy issues connecting age and generation with the family and social policy. It focuses both on cross-cultural comparison within societies and analysis based on a range of societies
