2021
DOI: 10.1017/s1474747220000396
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Information and legitimacy: results from an experimental survey on attitudes to the 2017 pension reform in Finland

Abstract: The legitimacy of a pension system or any social security program depends on its credibility and perceived fairness. In order to gauge this legitimacy, we need to understand the relation between people's knowledge and attitudes. This experimental survey into the role of knowledge and perceptions divided respondents into two groups: the ‘treatment’ group received an information letter about a forthcoming pension reform before they were interviewed, while the control group was interviewed without receiving this … Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1

Citation Types

0
1
0

Year Published

2022
2022
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
4

Relationship

0
4

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 4 publications
(1 citation statement)
references
References 39 publications
(66 reference statements)
0
1
0
Order By: Relevance
“…spent the most time reading the provided information. In addition, Kangas et al (2022) find that explaining a Finnish pension reform to treated individuals by sending them an information letter increases their perceived overall fairness of the reform. But it does neither impact fairness views of individual parts of the reforms nor concerns about different aspects of the pension system.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…spent the most time reading the provided information. In addition, Kangas et al (2022) find that explaining a Finnish pension reform to treated individuals by sending them an information letter increases their perceived overall fairness of the reform. But it does neither impact fairness views of individual parts of the reforms nor concerns about different aspects of the pension system.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%