Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms

Hinrichs, Karl; Jessoula, Matteo

doi:10.1057/9780230307605.0008

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“…Sweden, too, provides a fairly encompassing and inclusive two‐pillar arrangement for pensioners (cf. also Hinrichs & Jessoula, ). Not only do both countries have strong basic pension systems rooted in the concept of social citizenship, but they can also rely on strong industrial citizenship as a consequence of their encompassing collective bargaining arrangements.…”

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“…Occupational welfare has to be analyzed within the broader context of welfare systems, labor market developments and enterprise strategies. According to Hinrichs and Jessoula (), future outcomes of pension systems (in terms of income inequality, poverty in old age, etc.) are largely the consequence of the interplay between pension systems and their reforms as well as changing labor markets.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Public and Private Social Policies In Changimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Others have highlighted processes of labor market dualization, creating labor market insiders and labor market outsiders (Emmenegger, Häusermann, Palier, & Seeleib‐Kaiser, ). These labor market developments are very likely to have an impact on the social protection arrangements and their distributional outcomes for future retirees (Hinrichs & Jessoula, ). Furthermore, varieties of capitalism (VoC) can potentially also impact on OW provision during old age.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Comparing occupational welfare in Europe: The case of occupational pensions

Pavolini

Seeleib-Kaiser

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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The article provides an assessment to what extent reforms of occupational pensions (OP) have fostered a “risk shift” or increased social protection dualism across countries. The essay focuses on workers, whilst previous research primarily analyzed provision for current pensioners. The empirical analysis confirms that in countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden, increased private pension or (OP) provision does not necessarily lead towards social protection dualism and comprehensive risk shifts. Britain continues to be characterized by strong social protection dualism and entrenched social divides, creating “social policy enclaves”. Divisions of welfare are also very likely to be a feature of the German pension system in the future. The latter two countries have witnessed clear risk shifts and processes of dualization. The pension systems in Austria, Italy, and Spain have not witnessed paradigmatic changes, and continue to be primarily based on public/statutory pension schemes. The idea that multi‐pillarization in itself fosters major risk shifts and dualization has to be reconsidered. Under specific conditions, encompassing OPs can be functionally equivalent to public pension schemes. However, countries relying on voluntarism with regard to OPs coverage tend to witness processes of dualization.

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Comparing occupational welfare in Europe: The case of occupational pensions

Pavolini

Seeleib-Kaiser

2018

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“…This view may, however, be myopic to future developments. Old age poverty and inequality will most likely increase as a result of welfare state retrenchment, labor market flexibilization, and economic uncertainty (Hinrichs and Jessoula 2012). Hence, the problem of social sustainability (i.e.…”

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The Privatization and Marketization of Pensions in Europe: A Double Transformation Facing the Crisis

Ebbinghaus

2015

European Policy Analysis

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In response to the demographic challenges and fiscal constraints, many European welfare states have moved toward the privatization and marketization of pensions in order to improve their financial sustainability. The privatization of retirement income responsibility has led to a shift from dominantly public pensions to a multi‐pillar architecture with growing private pillars composed of personal, firm‐based, or collectively negotiated pension arrangements. At the same time, marketization has led to the introduction and expansion of prefunded pension savings based on financial investments as well as stronger reliance of market‐logic principles in the remaining public pay‐as‐you‐go (PAYG) pensions. However, there are also important cross‐national variations in the speed, scope, and structural outcome of the privatization and marketization of European pension systems. Liberal market economies, but also some coordinated market economies (the Netherlands and Switzerland) as well as the Nordic countries have embraced multi‐pillar strategies earlier and more widely, while the Bismarckian pensions systems and the post‐socialist transition countries of Eastern Europe have been belated converts. The recent financial market and economic crisis, however, indicates that the double transformation may entail short‐term problems and long‐term uncertainties about the social and political sustainability of these privatized and marketized multi‐pillar strategies.

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“…Pensions and national healthcare systems experienced strong increased costs in the last two decades as a consequence of the ageing population (Hinrichs and Jessoula, 2012;Pavolini and Guillén, 2013). LTC reforms need to be framed also as part of a broader trade-off between, on one side, retrenchment and restructuring in traditional and more expensive welfare policies (pensions, healthcare, etc.)…”

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Not all that glitters is gold: Long-term care reforms in the last two decades in Europe

Ranci

Pavolini

2015

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article explores changes that took place in long-term care (LTC) policies during the last two decades\ud in six European welfare states. In this regard, it addresses three issues: (1) why reforms took place, (2) the\ud main actors and coalitions driving this process and the institutional mechanisms at work and (3) the main\ud outcomes of reform processes. In order to analyse the development of LTC policies, the article applies\ud theoretical concepts of historical institutionalism. Our interpretation is that institutional change in LTC\ud policy has taken place through a protracted institutional dynamic in which continuity and discontinuity\ud are inextricably linked and where tensions and contradictions have played a crucial role. With regard to\ud outcomes, the article analyses coverage and citizens’ social rights, working conditions in the care sector\ud and trajectories of de-/re-familization of care. The final impact is that the level of universalism has generally\ud increased in Europe, but that in part it has adopted a new form of ‘restricted universalism’, characterized\ud by universal entitlements to LTC benefits constrained by limitations in provision due to financial constraints\ud and budget ceilings

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Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms

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Comparing occupational welfare in Europe: The case of occupational pensions

Comparing occupational welfare in Europe: The case of occupational pensions

The Privatization and Marketization of Pensions in Europe: A Double Transformation Facing the Crisis

Not all that glitters is gold: Long-term care reforms in the last two decades in Europe

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