This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their
functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age …

This paper provides an analysis of Chile's 35 year experience with defined contribution, fully
funded pensions and argues that this pension approach should not be emulated by …

As policy makers have sought to reconfigure the public–private boundaries of their pension
systems, trust has become an increasingly salient issue. At stake is the attainment of desired …

Welfare states and social security institutions are positioned at a nexus of the two principles
self-responsibility and solidarity resulting in higher or lower social inequality. Despite …

Within the literature of welfare state retrenchment, the “solidarity-decline thesis” is discussed.
It is argued that the privatisation of pension schemes leads to a decrease of solidarity. On …

This chapter presents an overview of Chile's welfare system with an emphasis on the
characteristics and impact of the health care and the fully funded defined contribution (DC) …

Privatization entails a number of quite different aspects that overlap only to some extent:(1)
responsibility in provision;(2) possibilities of exit from statutory plans;(3) the transfer of the …

In 1981, Chile's military dictatorship introduced a major reform of the retirement system,
replacing a set of long‐standing public pension arrangements with a system of privately …

Throughout the western world, change is underway in systems of old age provision. The
dynamics associated with this are tricky to grasp, however. Pension systems are subject to …

This article takes issue with the neoliberal conception of justice that has informed much of
retirement pension policy in recent decades. Drawing upon an appraisal of a spectrum of …