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Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
Hinrichs K.
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Description for Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
Paperback. "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"-- Editor(s): Hinrichs, K.; Jessoula, M. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPQB; KCA; KCP; KFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
Work and Welfare in Europe
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349331246
SKU
V9781349331246
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99-15
About Hinrichs K.
KAREN M. ANDERSON Associate Professor of Political Science at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands IGOR GUARDIANCICH PhD Researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy SILJA HÄUSERMANN Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, Zurich University, Switzerland DAVID NATALI Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy Analysis, University of Bologna, Italy NIELS ... Read more
Reviews for Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
'...a well researched, well edited, and clearly written book, and anyone with anything to do with pensions policy should be reading it.' - Citizen's Income Trust