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Looking Ahead: Pension Reforms and Inequality in Old Age

In: Unequal Ageing in Europe

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  • Gianni Betti
  • Francesca Bettio
  • Thomas Georgiadis
  • Platon Tinios

Abstract

Whereas gaps in pay and earnings between men and women—the gender pay gap in particular—are regularly followed, studied, and their amelioration is a policy target, its sequel that would be applied to an older population—the gender gap in pensions—was hardly ever mentioned until recently. Very little internationally comparable information exists, while the suspicion remains that gender imbalance could be worse in those countries where less is known about it. The estimates that exist for individual countries are sufficient to generate a sense of unease. They can also signal that information gaps could have important welfare implications, in the sense that important policy areas and initiatives are missed out through being unremarked. That issues of great importance for the independence of older women lack visibility could be interpreted by some as another example of that group of citizens being taken for granted.

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  • Gianni Betti & Francesca Bettio & Thomas Georgiadis & Platon Tinios, 2015. "Looking Ahead: Pension Reforms and Inequality in Old Age," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Unequal Ageing in Europe, chapter 8, pages 135-149, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-38410-2_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137384102_8
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