...Fernando Bermejo; Eladio Febrero; Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide broader understanding of the significant role that the pension system has in the Spanish economy by estimating the sectoral production, employment and income sustained by pensioners...

...James Obben; Monique Waayer Purpose The combination of low rates of private saving and projected increases in the fiscal burden of financing a public pension scheme for an ageing population poses a major policy challenge in New Zealand. Policy discourses espouse pension reform and the redoubling...

...Mark Hyde; John Dixon Purpose For much of the scholarly literature regarding retirement, private pensions are incapable of engaging the trust of those who depend on them. However, this appraisal is flawed by its one‐dimensional emphasis on the importance of social solidarity to trust. The purpose...

...Mark Hyde; John Dixon Purpose According to one influential set of arguments, the privatization of public pensions has been informed by neoliberalism, and has thus been an integral element of a broader program of welfare retrenchment, which is inconsistent with social cohesion. The paper aims...

... be structured in a way that removes them from such short‐term influences. This study examines some ways in which retirement entitlement programs may be restructured and suggests that such restructuring should be undertaken in exchange‐based societies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Pensions...

...John Dixon; Mark Hyde Although neo‐classical economics has undoubtedly driven the global pension privatization reform agenda, it does not provide an adequate framework for the reform of retirement income protection. Indeed, it poses salient decision risks for policy‐makers because of its naturalist...

...Avia Spivak Examines the options for a pension system in Israel in comparison with other pension systems in developed countries. A basic actuarial model is calculated for the evaluation of the feasible funded pensions. For reasonably conservative rates of return and contribution rates a funded...