The Oxford Handbook Of Pensions And Retirement Income

This handbook draws on research from a range of academic disciplines to reflect on the implications for provisions of pension and retirement income of demographic ageing. it reviews the latest research, policy related tools, analytical methods and techniques and major theoretical frameworks.

This handbook reviews existing theoretical perspectives and research findings on retirement, explores current and future challenges in retirement research and practice, and provides corresponding recommendations and suggestions.

This title offers different ways to think about retirement security in a volatile financial environment. Myriad retirement risks confront employees, retirees, employers and governments. The book illustrates how stakeholders can reinvent pensions that perform well in a competitive global setting.

This handbook provides a survey of the American welfare state. It offers an historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present, a discussion of available theoretical perspectives on it, an analysis of social programmes, and on overview of the U.S. welfare state's consequences for poverty, inequality, and citizenship.

The demographic & funding crisis that threatens European systems of pension & retirement income is the subject of this study. The book argues that state-sponsored social security will not deliver the promised retirement incomes for the baby-boom generation.

Focusing on how Europe and the USA are dealing with the demographic, financial and political pressures on pension security, this book seeks to explore the links between two spheres often considered separately; i.e. old age security and global finance.

This title looks at water availability and water demand in various sectors, estimating the water gap today and through the year 2050. It presents a methodology to prioritise options to bridge the water gap, using the marginal cost of water approach.

This handbook reviews existing theoretical perspectives and research findings on retirement, explores current and future challenges in retirement research and practice, and provides corresponding recommendations and suggestions.