Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems

The Dutch pension system is often praised as one of the best in the world: it is efficient, it provides certainty to participants and it preserves cohesion and solidarity among workers and pensioners. This book presents these benefits in detail, supported by quantitative evidence. It also discusses...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Steenbeek, Onno W. (Editor), van der Lecq, S. G. Fieke (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Subjects:
Economic policy.
Finance.
Population-Economic aspects.
Aging.
Economic Policy.
Financial Economics.
Population Economics.
Ageing.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • The concept of solidarity
  • Solidarities in collective pension schemes
  • Solidarity: who cares?
  • Quantifying solidarity
  • Operating costs of pension schemes
  • Optimal risk-sharing in private and collective pension contracts
  • Intergenerational value transfers within an industry-wide pension fund -a value-based ALM analysis
  • Intergenerational solidarity in the uniform contribution and accrual system
  • Everyone gains, but some more than others
  • Mandatory participation
  • Why mandatory retirement saving?
  • Mandatory participation for companies
  • Conclusion
  • Macroeconomic aspects of intergenerational solidarity
  • Summary and conclusions.

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