Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...

Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...

Nonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. The new pension concept was born in the early 1990s, implemented from the mid-1990s in Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, legislated most recently in Norway and Egypt and serves as inspiration for other reform countries. This...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. NDC: The Achievements and Challenges of Adulthood -- Part I Taking Stock -- Chapter 2. The Swedish NDC Scheme: Success on Track with Room for Reflection -- Chapter 3. The Latvian NDC Scheme:...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Part VI. Family and Gender -- Chapter 17. Gender and Family: Conceptual Overview -- Chapter 18. Drivers of the Gender Gap in Pensions: Evidence from EU-SILC and the OECD Pension Models -- Chapter 19....