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Title Labour market flexibility and pension reforms : flexible today, secure tomorrow? / edited by Karl Hinrichs and Matteo Jessoula
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Work and welfare in Europe
Work and welfare in Europe.
Contents List of illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- RECWOWE Book Series: Work and Welfare in Europe -- Funding -- Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: What Prospects for Old-Age Security?; K. Hinrichs & M. Jessoula -- Germany: A Flexible Labor Market plus Pension Reforms Makes Old-Age Poverty; K. Hinrichs -- The Italian Risky Combination: 'Selective Flexibility' and Defined-Contributions Pensions; M. Jessoula -- Poland: Are Flexible Labour Markets Ready for Individualized Pensions?; I. Guardiancich -- Lessons from the UK: When Multi-Pillar Pension Systems Meet Flexible Labour Markets; D. Natali -- Switzerland: Building a Multipillar Pension System for a Flexible Labour Market; S.H̃usermann & H. Schwander -- The Danish Flexicurity Model and Old Age Protection; N. Ploug -- The Netherlands: Reconciling Labour Market Flexicurity with Security in Old Age; K. Anderson -- Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?; M. Jessoula & K. Hinrichs -- Bibliography -- Index
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; K. Hinrichs & M. Jessoula -- Germany; K. Hinrichs -- Italy; M. Jessoula -- Poland; I. Guardiancich & D. Natali -- The Netherlands; K. Anderson -- Switzerland; S. Ha;usermann & H. Schwander -- Denmark; N. Ploug -- United Kingdom; D. Natali -- Conclusion; K. Hinrichs & M. Jessoula
Summary Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and to what extent, the interplay between pension reforms and the spread of 'atypical' employment patterns and fragmented careers has a negative influence uponeconomic security in old age. The volume, therefore, analyzes the flexibility-security nexus by focusing on the post-retirement phase, thus extending the conventional narrow concept of 'flexicurity'. The book also questions whetherreforms of public and private pension schemes compensate or aggravate the risks of increasingly flexible labor markets and atypical employment careers after retirement? Around this overarching research question, the various contributions in the volume employ the same analytical framework in order to map, and then compare, the developments in seven European countries - Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK ₆ which present different labour market arrangements and various degrees of flexibility, as well as diverse pension systems
"This book examines the growth of careers outside a traditional standard employment pattern and how those in "atypical jobs" will fare in retirement, analyzing how the interplay between labor market reforms/trends and pension reforms will affect income security in old age during future decades"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Career changes.
Labor market.
Pensions.
Labor demand.
Labor supply.
Employment (Economic theory)
employing.
pensions (compensation)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Labor supply
Labor demand
Career changes
Labor market
Pensions
Form Electronic book
Author Hinrichs, K. (Karl)
Jessoula, Matteo.
LC no. 2012004851
ISBN 9780230307605
0230307604