Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms

KAREN M. ANDERSON Associate Professor of Political Science at Radboud University Nijmegen, The NetherlandsIGOR GUARDIANCICH PhD Researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute in Florence, ItalySILJA HÄUSERMANN Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, Zurich University, SwitzerlandDAVID NATALI Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy Analysis, University of Bologna, ItalyNIELS PLOUG Director of Social Statistics, Statistics Denmark and Research Associate at the SFI The Danish National Centre for Social Research, DenmarkHANNA SCHWANDER Research Fellow and Doctoral Student in Comparative Politics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• List of illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements RECWOWE Book Series: Work and Welfare in Europe Funding Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: What Prospects for Old-Age Security?; K.Hinrichs & M.Jessoula Germany: A Flexible Labor Market plus Pension Reforms Makes Old-Age Poverty; K.Hinrichs The Italian Risky Combination: 'Selective Flexibility' and Defined-Contributions Pensions; M.Jessoula Poland: Are Flexible Labour Markets Ready for Individualized Pensions?; I.Guardiancich Lessons from the UK: When Multi-Pillar Pension Systems Meet Flexible Labour Markets; D.Natali Switzerland: Building a Multipillar Pension System for a Flexible Labour Market; S.Häusermann & H.Schwander The Danish Flexicurity Model and Old Age Protection; N.Ploug The Netherlands: Reconciling Labour Market Flexicurity with Security in Old Age; K.Anderson Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?; M.Jessoula & K.Hinrichs Bibliography Index

'...a well researched, well edited, and clearly written book, and anyone with anything to do with pensions policy should be reading it.' - Citizen's Income Trust