Pension systems : beyond mandatory retirement / edited by Elsa Fornero and Paolo Sestito.

Contiene: The fourth annual conference of CeRP, Is mandatory retirement an oudated feature of pension systems? held on 16 septenber 2003 in Turin - acknowledgements.

List of figures, vi -- List of tables, viii -- List of contributors, x -- Acknowledgments, xii -- 1. Introduction / Elsa Fornero and Paolo Sestito, 1 -- Part 1. Increasing retirement age: principles and practice -- 2. Social security rules that vary with age / Peter Diamond, 23 -- 3. Retirement incentives and retirement / Sarah Bridges and Richard Disney, 42 -- 4. A discussion / Michael Hurd, 69 -- Part 2. Country experiences -- 5. Patterns of retirement in Germany: how they emerged, and how to change them / Barbara Berkel and Axel Borsch-Supan, 81 -- 6. Assessing the impact of pensions policy reform in Ireland: the case of increasing the pension age / Cathal O 'Donoghue, 107 -- 7. Retirement age rules and pension reforms in Italy / Angelo Marano and Paolo Sestito, 144 -- 8- Retirement choices of older workers in Italy / Michele Belloni, Margherita Borella and Elsa Fornero, 185 -- 9. Income expectations and outcomes at mandatory retirement in the Netherlands / Mauro Mastrogiacomo, 225 -- Index, 359.