from pensions and absorbed within other working age social security, or the scope of National Insurance could be maintained …

future development of state pensions, arguing that their combined effect is to restore something like a flat rate state … contribution records. This leaves a choice for the remaining sixth of National Insurance benefits: to separate out state pensions …

This article outlines the recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, and the data and analysis on which they were … system. The Commission concluded that without reform, structural problems with UK pensions would lead to increasingly … have now largely been adopted by the UK government, imply eventual increases both in state spending on pensions as a share …

lengthening of the time spent in receipt of retirement benefits. The consumption smoothing function of state pensions has declined …Successive reforms enacted since the 1990s have dramatically changed Europe’s pensions landscape. This paper tries to … just those at the point of retirement, this approach can provide additional insights on the efficacy of pension systems in …

Large sections of the UK population are failing to make adequate provision for their retirement, and one area where … interviews with individuals from a wide range of organisations active in the pensions market for these companies to shed light on … employed. We find that many finance directors are sceptical of the benefits of providing pensions for their employees and …

This paper examines the performance of personal pensions (exempt unit trusts) in the UK 1980-2000. Unitised personal … accessed at retirement. By studying the performance of these schemes we are able to assess the role of illiquidity in retail …

The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for …

location intention at retirement using a recent data set on migrants currently living in France. We found that the migrant …

pension benefits through retirement) calculated using more realistic labour market assumptions. These measures are used to … strong in those countries where minimum pensions were improved. However, moves to link benefits to contributions have raised …