Demographic and fiscal pressures have increased pressures on governments in most wealthy countries to reduce the generosity of their public pension programs. Mechanisms that automatically adjust public pension levels to take account of factors such as increased life expectancy and slower...

Canadian tax rules purport to offer equal access to deferred-income retirement saving. In practice, they do not. Uniform, target retirement savings limits must be adopted so that all Canadians will have the same opportunity to save for retirement. The author recommends replacing current...

The growth in precarious employment and an escalating crisis in social reproduction suggest increasing retirement insecurity for Canadians, particularly for those (mainly women) doing unpaid care work over their life cycle. Reforms aimed at redistributing paid work time and the sex/gender...