Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: What Prospects for Security in Old Age?

   1. Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: What Prospects for Security in Old Age?

      • Karl Hinrichs, Matteo Jessoula

      Pages 1-25

3. Traditional Single-Pillar Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Germany: A Flexible Labour Market Plus Pension Reforms Means Poverty in Old Age

      • Karl Hinrichs

      Pages 29-61

   3. A Risky Combination in Italy: ‘Selective Flexibility’ and Defined Contributions Pensions

      • Matteo Jessoula

      Pages 62-92

   4. Poland: Are Flexible Labour Markets Ready for Individualized Pensions?

      • Igor Guardiancich

      Pages 93-122

4. Traditional Multi-Pillar Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Lessons from the UK: When Multi-Pillar Pension Systems Meet Flexible Labour Markets

      • David Natali

      Pages 125-154

   3. Switzerland: Building a Multi-Pillar Pension System for a Flexible Labour Market

      • Silja Häusermann, Hanna Schwander

      Pages 155-181

   4. The Danish Flexicurity Model and Old Age Protection

      • Niels Ploug

      Pages 182-202

   5. The Netherlands: Reconciling Labour Market Flexicurity with Security in Old Age

      • Karen M. Anderson

      Pages 203-230

5. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?

      • Matteo Jessoula, Karl Hinrichs

      Pages 233-250

6. Back Matter

   Pages 251-262

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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 which present different labour market arrangements and various degrees of flexibility, as well as diverse pension systems.

• European Union (EU)
• Germany
• income
• labor market
• Nation
• Poverty
• reforms
• Welfare
• european union politics

'...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

• University of Bremen, Germany

  Karl Hinrichs

• University of Milan, Italy

  Matteo Jessoula

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 PLOUG Director of Social Statistics, Statistics Denmark and Research Associate at the SFI The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Denmark HANNA SCHWANDER Research Fellow and Doctoral Student in Comparative Politics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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