Reforms for an Ageing Society
This book reviews recent trends, reforms and lessons learned in the 29 OECD countries as they relate to ageing. Recent reforms have been driven mainly by fiscal factors - to adjust systems such as pensions and long-term care to the ageing of the baby boom generation. This remains a main concern in m...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2000.
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| Colección: | Social issues Reforms for an ageing society.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705927706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Repairing the work incentives in pensions � linking contributions and benefits""""Closing or restricting some pathways to retirement""; ""Strengthening new pathways to retirement � often involving gradual transitions""; ""Other ways of increasing participation rates""; ""Box 1.1. Retirement incentives and labour supply � A policy principle of Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society""; ""Box 1.2. The United States leads in empirical understanding of the retirement transition""
- ""Box 1.3. Raising the age eligibility for New Zealand Superannuation had a substantial effect on employment rates""""Box 1.4. Examples of reforms that increase the age of pension eligibility""; ""Box 1.5. Reforms that increase work incentives through benefit and contribution changes""; ""Box 1.6. Selected examples of pension reforms where raising the retirement age is an integral part of larger reforms""; ""Box 1.7. Examples of reforms that close or restrict some pathways to retirement""; ""Box 1.8. United Kingdom highlighted reform to disability programme""
- ""Box 1.9. Examples of reforms that strengthen new pathways to retirement""""Chapter 2""; ""EMPLOYABILITY OF OLDER WORKERS � A WORKPLACE FOR ALL AGES?""; ""Summary and main results""; ""The present situation""; ""The scale of the policy challenge and of national responses""; ""Reform trends""; ""Retaining older workers""; ""Helping older people find new jobs""; ""Promoting a work force for all ages""; ""Box 2.1. The employability of older workers � A policy principle of Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society""
- ""Box 2.2. Examples of reforms specifically intended to retain older workers""""Box 2.3. Examples of reforms intended to help older people find new jobs""; ""Box 2.4. Examples of reforms intended to produce a workplace for all ages""; ""Chapter 3""; ""FISCAL CONSOLIDATION � OBVIOUS PROGRESS IN MANY COUNTRIES""; ""Summary and main results""; ""The present situation""; ""The scale of the challenge and of national policy responses""; ""Reform trends""; ""Cuts in expenditure or increases in contributions""; ""Fiscal action in non-age-related programming can relieve the pressures of ageing""
- ""New models for financing of pensions and long-term care""
