Pension systems and the challenge of population ageing: What does the public think?

Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 139-160

  Frommert, Dina ^a   Hofäcker, Dirk ^b   Heien, Thorsten ^c   Andreß, Hans Jürgen ^d  

^a German Federal Pension Insurance Department of Rehabilitation   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c TNS Infratest   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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