Pension systems compared : a polarised perspective, a diverse reality
Scarponetti, Patricia (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina))
Sepúlveda, Leandro (Middlesex University Business School)
Martin, Antonio (Martin Artiles) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT))

Imprint:	Springer 2021
Abstract:	Globalisation and international competition have a spillover effect on the reforms of pension systems that imposes a similar pattern of dismantling, hardening access to pensions, reducing expenditure and retrenchment in said reforms. The comparative analysis of four countries with different pension systems: two liberal (United Kingdom and Chile) and another two with contributory-proportional systems (Spain and Argentina) serves to determine the details of the reform processes, which discursively seem to have a shared pattern recommended by the international financial and economic institutions. But the reality of the four case studies shows considerable differences in the implementation of the pension reform policies. The reforms depend on the societal context, institutions, history, the role of unions, the government in power, demographic factors and economic perspectives, among other matters. Many countries need to sustain pension systems because they are associated with many pensioners' political vote. Therefore, the spillover effect of globalisation and the convergence in certain uniform patterns of reforms is far from reality in the four countries, and as such, the measures adopted are specific for each country.
Grants:	European Commission 691004
Note:	Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre
Subject:	Pensions ; Occupational pensions ; Reform policies ; Globalisation ; Social dialogue ; Neoliberalism ; Corporatism
Published in:	Towards a comparative analysis of social inequalities between Europe and Latin America, 2021, p. 419-451

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48442-2_14

33 p, 1.9 MB

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