Averting the funding-gap crisis: East European pension reforms since 2008;Eviter la crise du déficit de financement: Les réformes de retraite en Europe de l'Est depuis 2008

Global Social Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-299

  Drahokoupil, Jan ^a   Domonkos, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b Employment and Social Policies Unit of the Research Department at the European Trade Union Institute   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; financial crisis; funded pension schemes; funding gap; pension privatization; pensions; political economy; politics of reform; transition costs

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PENSION SYSTEM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL REFORM; PRIVATIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84870859773     PISSN: 14680181     EISSN: 17412803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468018112455653     Document Type: Article

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