It is well-known that pension fund participants can benefit from intergenerational risksharing, but that different generations have different incentives. This paper models intergenerational solidarity in closing funded pension plans as a bargaining process between generations. We consider generations which each are represented by members of the pension fund’s board. We model pension funds that ...

Two popular books followed the latest financial crash and austerity drive: The Pinch and Jilted Generation urged those under 35 or so to protest against the self interest of baby boomers. Born from 1946 to 1964, boomers had allegedly saddled younger generations with public debt, student tuition fees, job insecurity, and an unreachable housing ladder—while boomers were growing asset and pension ...

Following Reher’s (1998) seminal paper on family ties in western Europe, the perspective that family solidarity patterns are divided along the lines of an individualistic north and a familialistic south has dominated the research literature. We challenge this view and address variability in intergenerational family solidarity within and across countries. Using multiple dimensions of intergenera...

Demographic, social, and structural changes are transforming intergenerational relationships aging experiences in Asia. While multigenerational families have increased the duration of grandparenting has lengthened, households declined. Grandparents increasingly embedded support, care, reciprocal relationships. The paper examines cognitive affective dimensions solidarity ambivalence through lens...

The aim of the present study was to investigate parent-child relationships across the life span by applying an attachment theoretical point of view to the phenomenon of intergenerational solidarity. Parent-child relationships are among the first and most crucial relationships in which individuals experience support and protection (Marris, 1991). The quality of these relationships plays an impor...

OBJECTIVE Although intergenerational relationships have been extensively examined, studies applying dynamic multidimensional treatments are rare. Employing the life course framework and the intergenerational solidarity and ambivalence paradigms, a typology of intergenerational relationships was derived and propositions about dynamics of intergenerational relationships were tested. METHOD Usin...

This paper has peculiarity. It has been drafted as a particular response to a specific calling: the convening by the United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development of an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on “Intergenerational Solidarity: Strengthening Economic and Social Ties”. Its content tries to be responsive to this particular calling and it has not been drafted according to common rule...

lndustrialized countries with rising life expeetaney and falling birthrates are expcricncing a far-reaching demographie transformation involving changcs in variolls areas of soeiety. The inereasing li fe expectancy signifies a potentially longer common lifespan among generational cohorts of different ages. These changes imply questions about the shaping of intergenerational relations under cond...