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Reforming State Pension Provision in ‘Liberal’ Anglo-Saxon Countries: Re-Commodification, Cost-Containment or Recalibration?
Get PDFThere are good theoretical reasons for expecting pension reform in Anglo-Saxon countries to follow similar paths. Esping-Andersen (1990) famously identified these countries as belonging to the same ‘Liberal’ model of welfare, under which benefits, including pensions, are said to be residual and weakly ‘de-commodifying’, reducing individuals’ reliance on the market to a much lesser degree than elsewhere. Pierson (2001) has furthermore argued that because of path dependency welfare states are likely to follow established paths when dealing with ‘permanent austerity’. Following this logic, Aysan and Beaujot (2009) argue that pension reform in liberal countries has resulted in increasing re-commodification. In this paper, we review pension reforms in the UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand in the 2000s. We argue that because, in reality, the pension systems differed significantly at the point of reform, the paths followed varied considerably in terms of whether they focused on ‘re-commodification’, ‘cost-containment’ or ‘recalibration’
The domestic and gendered context for retirement
Get PDFAgainst a global backdrop of population and workforce ageing, successive UK governments have encouraged people to work longer and delay retirement. Debates focus mainly on factors affecting individuals’ decisions on when and how to retire. We argue that a fuller understanding of retirement can be achieved by recognizing the ways in which individuals’ expectations and behaviours reflect a complicated, dynamic set of interactions between domestic environments and gender roles, often established over a long time period, and more temporally proximate factors. Using a qualitative data set, we explore how the timing, nature and meaning of retirement and retirement planning are played out in specific domestic contexts. We conclude that future research and policies surrounding retirement need to: focus on the household, not the individual; consider retirement as an often messy and disrupted process and not a discrete event; and understand that retirement may mean very different things for women and for men
Supporting Health Ageing at Work qualitative interviews
No full textDataset comprises qualitative lifecourse interviews (anonymised) from participants aged 50+ in three case study settings: finance, manufacturing/engineering and social care. Interviews focused on how health and work interact and on organisational supports for health and wellbeing as employees age.Text files (Engliah
I Remember column in which author Wendy Anderson describes a Christmas Eve in
No full textI Remember column in which author Wendy Anderson describes a Christmas Eve in the 1960s when her family waited anxiously for her father, Arvid, to return home to Monson during a snowstorm. Her father arrived safely on Christmas afternoon, after digging his car out from nearly three feet of snow
Author\u27s Rights for Dissertations and Journal Articles
No full textLibrarian Wendy Highby discusses your rights as an author
Wendy Brenner
No full textWendy Brenner visited The College at Brockport in October 1996. She is an author and professor of Creative Writing.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
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