...Chiara Natalie Focacci; Gülin Öylü; Andreas Motel-Klingebiel; Susanne Kelfve Purpose Driven by the aim to increase the participation of older people in the labour force and to extend people's working lives, the Swedish Parliament passed a bill in 1998 to increase the pension eligibility age from...

...Liam Foster; Sam Wai Kam Yu; Ruby Chui Man Chau Purpose This article aims to link discussions of the role of earnings-related pension measures with time in Hong Kong (HK) and the United Kingdom (UK). It presents a new conceptual “time-based framework” to explore two related types of government...

...Qi Wang; Virpi Timonen Existing research focuses on the pension systems and reforms in China from a macro-level and financial perspective. The expectations of mid-life Chinese people regarding their retirement and pensions have been ignored to date, and this research set out to address...

... the two types of household was as follows. A retired person was defined as anyone who describes themselves in the “LCF” as “retired” or anyone over minimum State Pension age who describes themselves as “unoccupied” or “sick or injured but not intending to seek work”. A retired household is where...

...Ce Shen; John B. Williamson Purpose This paper aims to describe China's need for old‐age pension coverage in its rural areas, to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the new rural pension system currently being implemented, and to suggest some needed reforms. Design/methodology/approach...

...Orla Gough; Rod Hick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine issues relating to public and private pensions for individuals from some of the major ethnic minority groups in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on data from in‐depth interviews and focus groups with 64...

...Shireen Kanji Purpose This research aims to illustrate the differential treatment of children and pensioners in Russia and to explain why this has not led to age group conflict through an illustration of age group interdependency. Design/methodology/approach Age group conflict is revealed...

... the danger of large‐scale protests in the 1990s. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Pensions Poland Hungary International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 86 The Pensioner Booms in Post-Communist Hungary and Poland: Political Sociology Perspectives by Pieter Vanhuysse, University...

...John B. Williamson; Stephanie A. Howling Most countries around the world base their old‐age pension programs largely on the pay‐as‐you‐go defined benefit (PAYGO DB) model. However, due to a number of factors including population aging, the maturing of these schemes, rapidly increasing old‐age...

...Jay Ginn Considers the way in which UK and American pension schemes are structured for women’s poverty and social exclusion in later life. Analyses recent trends in women’s employment and the impacts on current pension structures. Looks at the impact of different pension schemes and goes...