Efficient Indexation of Social Insurance Pensions

Insurance and Private Pensions

Swedish social insurance officers' experiences of difficulties in assessing applications for disability pensions – an interview study

BACKGROUND In this study the focus is on social insurance officers judging applications for disability pensions. The number of applications for disability pension increased during the late 1990s, which has resulted in an increasing number of disability pensions in Sweden. A more restrictive attitude towards the clients has however evolved, as societal costs have increased and governmental guide...

Rethinking Employment Relations: the Social Bargain, Pensions,

Elevated unemployment rates since 2008 have given firms a bargaining power advantage over their employees, allowing employers to reduce wage and compensation growth, including the scope and amount of pension contributions. This paper argues that a more equitable approach to employment relations can promote distributively just labor market outcomes and improve macroeconomic performance. A strong...

Poverty alleviation: Aid and social pensions

Transaction costs” are commonly referred to in the recent literature on aid effectiveness. The shift to a new partnership aid paradigm (cf. the Paris Agenda) is grounded on the desire to render aid more effective, notably through reducing the high transaction costs generated by the project approach. Aid transaction costs, however, have neither been consistently defined nor measured. In this pap...

Supplementary pensions between social policy and social regulation

The European Commission has developed an analysis of supplementary pensions which constructs the policy area as regulatory by separating ‘allocative’ issues, such as smoothing lifetime income and promoting saving, from traditional ‘redistributive’ or ‘budgetary’ welfare concerns, such as ensuring an adequate minimum income. In the allocative sphere, it promotes market-oriented values, notably ‘...