Machine generated contents note: pt. I Comparing Pension Privatization in Europe -- 1. Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe / Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- 2. The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure / Mareike Gronwald -- pt. II Bismarckian Latecomers to Multipillar Pension Systems -- 3. Belgium: The Paradox of Persisting Voluntarism in a Corporatist Welfare State / Johan J. De Deken -- 4. France: Promoting Funded Pensions in Bismarckian Corporatism? / Bruno Palier -- 5. Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions / Tobias Wiss -- 6. Italy: From Bismarckian Pensions to Multipillarization under Adverse Conditions / Matteo Jessoula -- pt. III Emergent Nordic Multipillar Pension Systems
7. Denmark: The Silent Revolution towards a Multipillar Pension System / Jørgen Goul Andersen -- 8. Finland: From Statutory Pension Dominance towards Voluntary Private Schemes / Paivi Luna -- 9. Sweden: A Viable Public-Private Pension System / Eskil Wadensjo -- pt. IV Mature Multipillar Pension Systems -- 10. Britain: Exhausted Voluntarism -- The Evolution of a Hybrid Pension Regime / Traute Meyer -- 11. The Netherlands: Adapting a Multipillar Pension System to Demographic and Economic Change / Karen M. Anderson -- 12. Switzerland: Regulating a Public-Private Heritage of Multipillar Pension Governance / Silja Hausermann -- pt. V Comparing Pension Systems and their Outcome -- 13. The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe / Tobias Wiss -- 14. The Public-Private Pension Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in Europe / Jorg Neugschwender
Summary
Sustainable and adequate old age pensions in ageing societies have become a major topic on the political agenda. This book describes the shift from public to private pensions and explains the differences across ten European countries
