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Solidarity without the state? : business and the shaping of the Swiss welfare state, 1890-2000 /

This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar' pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Through a study of busines...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leimgruber, Matthieu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: The emergence of a pension fund champion: Switzerland in the worlds of welfare
  • The dress rehearsal for pension politics (1890-1914)
  • Laying the foundations of a divided pension system (1914-1938)
  • Nomonster like the Beveridge Plan. The wartime breakthrough of social insurance (1938-1948)
  • The three-pillar doctrine and the containment of social insurance (1948-1972)
  • Epilogue. Aging in the shadow of the three pillars (1972-2006)
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. A statistical overview of the second pillar.