TY - BOOK AU - Fornero,Elsa AU - Sestito,Paolo ED - Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (Turin, Italy) TI - Pension systems: beyond mandatory retirement SN - 1843769476 AV - HD7105.3 .P4577 2005 U1 - 331.25'2 PY - 2005/// CY - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA PB - Elgar KW - Old age pensions KW - Retirement income KW - Retirement, Mandatory N1 - Papers presented at the fourth annual conference of CeRP, 'Is mandatory retirement an outdated feature of pension systems?' held on 16 September 2003 in Turin; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The focus of the book is the analysis of public intervention in individuals' retirement choice, its rationale and the desirability of legislation introducing a sizeable and compulsory increase in retirement age, to face the prospects of swift population ageing. The book assesses the impact of different retirement rules on individual decisions, on the sustainability of social security systems and on labour market dynamics, and inquires whether mandatory retirement has not become an outdated feature of modern pension systems.The motivations behind public intervention in fixing compulsory retirement rules as well as the likely consequences of allowing the individual a higher responsibility in retirement choices are analysed ER -