The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly
challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to …

One must have money. This is one of the most traditional assumptions underlying private
law in Europe, forcefully conveyed by the German expression 'Geld muss man haben'('One …

In the past two decades, the question of how pension systems should be designed to offer
'adequate and sustainable pensions for all'has been raised. As a result, European pension …

Egalitarian liberal justice requires redistributive income transfers to protect the basic liberties
of all citizens, yet it has been asserted that privatisation is fundamentally inegalitarian, and …

Die dritte Säule galt in der vergleichenden Sozialpolitikforschung schon vor der Finanz-und
Wirtschaftskrise als ungeeignetes Instrument: Eigenverantwortlichkeit führt zu …

Pension systems have often been regarded as difficult to retrench. This is despite the fact
they have faced a series of major challenges over the last 40 years, which might have been …

Pension system regulation has grown to a complex field of study; many actors have been
setting up institutional arrangements, which serve two main purposes: poverty prevention …

» Neue Altersarmut «ist seit einigen Jahren Gegenstand einer breiten Debatte. Inzwischen
gilt als bewiesen, dass Sicherungsdefizite im Alter künftig häufiger auftreten werden, doch …

The extent to which people save for retirement is a key component in determining wellbeing
in later life and, in the UK, policy makers have been concerned at the low level of retirement …

Since European Union (EU) enlargement in 2003, labour migration from East to West and
South to North has increased. It is to be expected that a share of these workers will want to …