News: The Effect of Family Formation on the Build-up of Pension Rights Among Minority Ethnic Groups and Native Women in Belgium

The Effect of Family Formation on the Build-up of Pension Rights Among Minority Ethnic Groups and Native Women in Belgium

Authors: Karel Neels, David De Wachter, and Hans Peeters  

Gender penalties in pension outcomes are widely acknowledged and have been documented for majority populations in various settings. A recurring finding is that the gendered impact of family formation on work–care trajectories adversely affects women's accumulation of pension rights over the lifecourse relative to men. Although maternal employment is particularly low in migrant populations, few papers have explicitly addressed pension protection of migrant women. 

Books and Reports: European Policy Brief of the agenta Project: Live Longer, Work Longer?

European Policy Brief of the agenta Project: Live Longer, Work Longer?

Population ageing, propelled by a continuous increase in old-age life expectancy and a persistent replacement level fertility, presents a challenge for many welfare states to keep up their welfare expenditure on pension, health care and all old-age services. Options for tackling this daunting challenge, such as increasing fertility and immigration levels, cutting benefits and growing public debts, present numerous obstacles.
How to Make Pensions Sustainable and Socially Meaningful

How to Make Pensions Sustainable and Socially Meaningful

OECD’s Pensions at a Glance 2015
Pension reform is one of the most difficult and politically charged areas of social policy. This is true not only in the United States, where social security has been called the "third rail of American politics" – touch it and you die –, but also in many European countries. Changing the rules of retirement, such as pension ages and benefit levels, is unpopular and a tough sell for governments; raising pensions and allowing people to stop working earlier, by contrast, is a good way to make friends and builds support among an ageing electorate.
From Age-Flex to Flex-Work

From Age-Flex to Flex-Work

How increasing life expectancy could contribute to gender equality in leadership positions
by James W. Vaupel Everyone talks about our new life courses in view of increasing life expectancy – but what about reconciliation of family and career? In numerous sectors of the economy and other branches of society, many of the leading positions are predominantly occupied by men. This has led to, for example, debates about obligatory quota regulations within the governing boards of listed companies to allow females to break through the so-called “glass ceiling” of gender-specific career paths.
Books and Reports: Pensions at a Glance 2015

Pensions at a Glance 2015

Abstract and Download Details
The 10-year anniversary edition of Pensions at a Glance highlights the pension reforms undertaken by OECD and G20 countries over the last two years. Two special chapters provide deeper analysis of first-tier pension schemes and of the impact of short or interrupted careers, due to late entry into employment, childcare or unemployment, on pension entitlements. Another chapter analyses the sensitivity of long-term pension replacement rates on various parameters. A range of indicators for comparing pension policies and their outcomes between OECD and G20 countries is also provided.
More For Women In Retirement?

More For Women In Retirement?

A review of current and expected gender gaps in retirement and living standards
Survivors’ pensions - pensions that are derived from rights acquired by the individual’s spouse - were a feasible solution to the problem of gender inequality in retirement and living standards in the recent past. But current increases in divorce rates along with a decrease in marriage rates, and the rise in women’s participation in the labour force that questions the "male breadwinner" model necessitate a change in the forms of redistribution, claim Carole Bonnet and Jean-Michael Hourriez from INED.  
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