Pensions, inflation and growth : a comparative study of the elderly in the welfare state /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book, the product of a team of economics and social administration faculty based at the University of Glasgow, is an ambitious work. It represents a serious effort to conduct a comparative analysis of the basic public and private pension programs and other social provisions that have developed for the elderly in the six European nations of West Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Italy, and Belgium. The major focus of the volume is to examine the current position of the elderly in these nations, which in the authors' words, have "both affluent and inflationary" economies. Their concern, throughout, is whether existing policies and provisions sufficiently address such issues as the elimination of poverty in old age; the replacement of incomes according to preretirement earnings and standards of living; the financing of both public and private pensions; and the protection of the elderly against rising living costs and yet, also, the assurance of a fair share in national economic growth through adjusted pension levels and other social benefits.

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