Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe: The Varying Scope for Participatory and Social Rights

Research question/goal: 

The shift towards non-state supplementary pensions across Europe raises fundamental issues regarding their governance in respect to guaranteeing basic participatory and social rights. The coverage, the benefit formula, the funding modes and other insurance features vary across supplementary pension systems as a result of different state or collective regulation. Based on ten country studies by national experts, the international project compared the evolution of supplementary pensions, focusing on the role of the state and social partners in regulating occupational and private pensions. The comparison of Germany with nine western European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom) offers enough variations on old-age income security to analyze the varying impact on the level of coverage, performance, composition and risk pooling. Building on ten country studies by international teams of experts, three comparative analyses examined the long-term development of public and private pension systems, the variations in governance of private supplementary pensions and the impact of pension systems on current and future social inequality in old age. The results were published in the edited volume “The Varieties of Pension Governance (Oxford University Press, 2011). In addition, three doctoral projects were developed in the context of the project. The goal of the project was to contribute to the comparative analysis of institutional changes in public-private mix and pension reforms. The research revealed the path-dependent development of multipillar pension systems: the Beverdige systems were early in developing funded pensions, while Bismarck pension systems lagged behind. There are very different modes in private pension governance and regulation, varying from less regulation in liberal market economies to higher levels of regulation in some coordinated market economies, particularly those with collectively negotiated or mandatory private pensions. These variations matter for income inequality, in particular for the scope of private pensions and its share in overall pension income.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
DFG
Duration: 
2005 to 2011
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Country case studies (secondary analysis and interviews); mi
Geographic Space: 
Europe (European Union)

Publications

Books

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (Ed.) (2011): The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Wiß, Tobias (2011): Der Wandel der Alterssicherung in Deutschland. Die Rolle der Sozialpartner. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. more
Wiß, Tobias (2008): Europäisierung der Alterssicherung? Einfluss und Wirkung der Europäischen Union auf Rentenreformen in Deutschland seit 2001. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag. more
Immergut, Ellen M., Karen M. Anderson and Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) (2007): The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Gronwald, Mareike (2007): Entwicklungstendenzen westeuropäischer Wohlfahrtsstaaten. Zur Rentenreform in Schweden, Großbritannien und Deutschland. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. more
Schulze, Isabelle (2007): Der Einfluss von Wahlsystemen auf Politikinhalte. Electoral Threat in der Rentenpolitik. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. more

Journal Articles

Weishaupt, J. Timo, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Claus Wendt (2013): Editorial: Der Umbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Krisenzeiten - Institutioneller Wandel in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 59, issue 3, pp. 279-290. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2013): Flerpilarparadigmet til ettertanke: Privatiseringen av pensjonsordninger i et finanskriserammet Europa. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning, 16, issue 4, pp. 234-246. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Mitchell A. Orenstein and Noel Whiteside (2012): Governing pension fund capitalism in times of uncertainty. Global Social Policy, 12, issue 3, pp. 241-245. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Noel Whiteside (2012): Shifting responsibilities in Western European pension systems: What future for social models?. Global Social Policy, 12, issue 3, pp. 266-282. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2012): Varieties of Pension Governance under Pressure: Funded Pensions in Western Europe. CESifo DICE Report, 2012, issue 4, pp. 3-8. more
Wiß, Tobias (2012): Der Ausbau der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge: Soziale Ungleichheiten für Beschäftigte bei gleichzeitiger Wiederbelebung der Sozialpartner. Sozialer Fortschritt, 61, issue 7, pp. 165-172. more
Wiß, Tobias (2012): Rentenprivatisierung in Bismarck-Ländern: Zur Rolle der Sozialpartner als Vetospieler. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 53, issue 3, pp. 467-492. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Tobias Wiß (2011): Taming pension fund capitalism in Europe: collective and state regulation in times of crisis. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 17, issue 1, pp. 15-28. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): The role of trade unions in European pension reforms: From "old" to "new" politics?. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 17, issue 4, pp. 315-331. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Isabelle Schulze (2007): Krise und Reform der Alterssicherung in Europa. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 47, pp. 269-296. more

Book Chapters

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2023): Pension Governance in a Globalising World. Pp. 308–318 in: Christian Karner, Dirk Hofäcker (Eds.) Research Handbook on the Sociology of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2012): Europe’s Transformations Towards a Renewed Pension System. Pp. 182-205 in: Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali (Eds.) The Politics of the New Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Mareike Gronwald and Tobias Wiß (2011): Germany: Departing from Bismarckian public pension. Pp. 119-150 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Ed.) The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): Introduction: Studying pension privatization in Europe. Pp. 3-22 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Ed.) The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Mareike Gronwald (2011): The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From path dependence to path departure. Pp. 23-53 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Ed.) The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Tobias Wiß (2011): The governance and regulation of private pensions in Europe. Pp. 351-383 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Ed.) The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Jörg Neugschwender (2011): The public-private pension mix and old age income inequality in Europe. Pp. 384-422 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Ed.) The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2008): Comparative Regime Analysis: Early Exit from Work in Europe, Japan, and the USA. Pp. 260-289 in: Lane Kenworthy, Alexander Hicks (Eds.) Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Schulze, Isabelle, and Martin Schludi (2007): Austria: from electoral cartels to competitive coalition-building. Pp. 555-604 in: Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Anderson, Karen M., Sanneke Kuipers, Isabelle Schulze and Wendy van den Nouland (2007): Belgium: linguistic veto players and pension reform. Pp. 297-346 in: Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schulze, Isabelle, and Sven Jochem (2007): Germany: beyond policy gridlock. Pp. 660-710 in: Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schulze, Isabelle, and Michael Moran (2007): Ireland: Pensioning the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Pp. 758-803 in: Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schulze, Isabelle (2007): Luxembourg: an electoral system with panache. Pp. 804-853 in: Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schulze, Isabelle, and Michael Moran (2007): United Kingdom: pension politics in an adversarial system. Pp. 49-96 in: Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Isabelle Schulze (Eds.) The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): The Politics of Pension Reform: Managing Interest Group Conflicts. Pp. 759-777 in: Gordon L. Clark, Alicia H. Munnell, Michael Orszag (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): Die sozialen Risken der neuen Alterssicherungssysteme. Pp. 473-488 in: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (Ed.) Soziale Ungleichheit, Kulturelle Unterschiede. Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München 2004. Teil 1. Frankfurt: Campus. more

Other Publications

Gronwald, Mareike (2013): Reforming Old Age Security in Europe. A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Change in France, Germany and Sweden. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. [Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften; Dr.rer.soc.] (Dissertation) more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Mitchell A. Orenstein and Noel Whiteside (Eds.) (2012): Special Issue on Governing Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty. [Global Social Policy] more
Neugschwender, Jörg (2011): Occupational Welfare Policies and Pension Income Inequalities: Case studies of pension systems in Denmark, Finland, and the United Kingdom. [Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series] more
Wiß, Tobias (2011): Pension Fund Capitalism and Financial Crisis. Wien [Working Paper, Political Science Series] more
Schulze, Isabelle (2006): Der Einfluss von Wahlsystemen auf Politikinhalte: Electoral Threat in der Rentenpolitik. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. more

Conference Presentations

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2014): Der Wandel der Alterssicherung und Alterseinkommen in Europa. [FNA-Jahrestagung "Alterssicherung und die Entwicklung in Europa", Berlin, January 23rd to January 24th, 2014] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2013): Second Thoughts on the Multi-Pillar Paradigm: Pension Privatization Facing the Financial Crisis. [SASE 25th Conference, "States in Crisis", Milano, July 27th to July 29th, 2013] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2013): The Privatization of Pensions: Towards pension fund capitalism. [The governance of welfare markets, FOKOS, Universität Siegen, April 25th to April 26th, 2013] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2012): Shifting Responsibilities in Western European Pension Systems. [ISA RC19 Conference, Oslo, August 23rd to August 25th, 2012] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2012): The Governance of Funded Pensions in Europe – Lessons from the Financial Crisis?. [AIAS Seminar, University of Amsterdam, April 19th, 2012] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2012): The Privatization of Pensions in Europe facing the Crisis. ["Finance et protection sociale" Workshop, Sciences Po, Paris, October 03rd to October 04th, 2012] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): Embedded pension reforms in Europe: The forces toward a renewed welfare system for the elderly. [9th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Valencia, September 08th to September 10th, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): Pension Reforms in Europe: Global and National Challenges. [Toward 'Social Europe'? National Welfare States and European Union Social Policy, Seattle, University of Washington, April 28th to April 29th, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Tobias Wiß (2011): Regulating funded pensions in times of crisis: A western European comparison. [18th International Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): Regulating funded pensions in times of crisis: A western European comparison. [SASE 23rd Annual Conference, Madrid, June 23rd to June 25th, 2011] more
Wiß, Tobias, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus (2011): Regulating funded pensions in times of crisis: A western European comparison. [GUSTO pensions workshop, University of Warwick, January 06th to January 07th, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2011): The Dynamics of Individual Attitudes towards Pension Policies in Times of Welfare State Retrenchment. [Workshop on The Political Economy of Reforms, SFB 884, Universität Mannheim, December 09th to December 10th, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): The Governance of European Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty. [Economic Sociology Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 02nd, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): The role of trade unions in European pension reforms: From old to new politics?. [RECWOWE final conference: “Work and welfare in Europe: New compromises or ongoing demise?”, Brussels, June 15th to June 17th, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2011): The Role of Trade Unions in Pension Policy-making and Private Pension Governance in Europe. [“Public-Private Pension Mix” Workshop, ETUI, Brussels, October 27th to October 28th, 2011] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2010): Overcoming the Old and Toward a New Welfare Stystem for the Elderly?. [The Politics of the New Welfare State, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, Flroence, October 14th to October 15th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Tobias Wiß (2010): Regulating Private Pensions in Times of Crisis: Short-term and Long-term Consequences. [European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) Conference, Budapest, September 05th to September 08th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2010): The Political Economy of Pension Governance – Regulating the Privatization of Financial Risks. [Council for European Studies (CES) Annual Conference, Montreal, April 15th to April 17th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2010): The Political Economy of Pension Reforms: Past and Current Challenges. [Seminar on New Challenges and Answers in the Post-Industrial Welfare State, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, October 05th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2010): The Role of Social Partners in European Pension Reforms: From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Politics?. [RECWOWE Workshop, London School of Economics, March 12th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Tobias Wiß (2010): Varieties of Pension Governance: The Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe. [GUSTO Workshop: “Pension Privatization in Crisis?”, University of Warwick, May 26th to May 27th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2010): Welfare state regimes and the life course: the case of retirement. [SOCLIFE Workshop, Universität zu Köln, February 19th, 2010] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2010): Auf dem Weg zum Mehrsäulenmodell? Prozesse und Strategien des institutionellen Wandels in der Alterssicherung im Vergleich. [9. Graduiertenkolloquium des Forschungsnetzwerkes Alterssicherung, Berlin, July 08th to July 09th, 2010] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2010): Different Paths to Pension System Change in Europe. [Changing social policy in a cross-national perspective: methods and policy area specifities. ESPAnet Doctoral Workhop, Paris, Maison des sciences économiques, April 08th to April 10th, 2010] more
Wiß, Tobias (2010): Sozialpartner in der Alterssicherung: Möglichkeiten und Auswirkungen. [9. Graduiertenkolloquium des Forschungsnetzwerkes Alterssicherung (FNA), Berlin, July 08th to July 09th, 2010] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): Financing European workers' right to decent, predictable and adequate retirement: a review of the European landscape a year into the crisis. [Capital Matters in Europe 2009, ETUI, Brussels, December 10th, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): International Policy Diffusion or Path Dependent Adaptation: The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe. [Social Policies: Local Experiments, Travelling Ideas, RC 19 Meeting, University of Montreal, August 20th to August 22nd, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): Path Dependency and Departure in Public and Private Pensions in Europe. [ESRC-Seminar Series: Coping with Uncertainty, Cambridge, February 13th, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): Pension Systems and Old Age Income in Europe. [flexCAREER Workshop, Universität Bamberg, May 15th to May 16th, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure. [Comparing Past and Present. Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the ASA, University of California Berkeley, August 12th, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure. [American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 07th to August 11th, 2009] more
Wiß, Tobias, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus (2009): Varieties of Pension Governance: The Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe. [5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10th to September 12th, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2009): Varieties of Pension Governance: The Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe. [Pension Seminar, LSE, London, December 10th, 2009] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2009): Institutional Change and the 'Multipillarisation' of Pension Systems in Germany and the Netherlands. [Institutional Change. EQUALSOC/TRALEG Workshop, Amsterdam, June 18th to June 19th, 2009] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2009): Paths to 'Multipillarisation' in Old Age Security. An Analysis of Change. [Changing Welfare States, Changing Theoretical Concepts? 1st Doctoral Workshop of the German ESPAnet Group, Berlin, May 13th to May 14th, 2009] more
Wiß, Tobias (2009): Die Rolle der Sozialpartner im System der Alterssicherung. [Changing Welfare States, Changing Theoretical Concepts? 1st Doctoral Workshop of the German ESPAnet Network, Berlin, WZB, May 13th to May 14th, 2009] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2008): Pension Governance and Social Inequality in Old Age: A European Comparison. [EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, April 11th to April 12th, 2008] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2008): Pension Systems and Old Age Income in Europe. [Labor market flexibilization and its effects on the late career (FlexCareer), Universität Leipzig, October 18th, 2008] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2008): Pfadabhängigkeit oder Pfadabweichungen? Institutioneller Wandel der Alterssicherung in Europa. [Center for Globalization and Goverance (CGG) Lecture Series, Hamburg, November 05th, 2008] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2008): Studying institutional change across time and space. [The Role of Ideas, Discourses and Frames in Welfare Policies, Ph.D. Research School, Aalborg University, Aalborg, October 01st to October 03rd, 2008] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Jörg Neugschwender (2008): Welchen Beitrag können Zusatzrentensysteme zur Vermeidung von Altersarmut leisten?. [Alterssicherung im internationalen Vergleich, Bensheim, October 15th to October 17th, 2008] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2008): Changing Public-Private Mix in Europe: Trans-national Convergence or Path-dependence?. [6th Annual ESPAnet Conference 2008: Cross-Border Influence in Social Policy, Helsinki, September 18th to September 20th, 2008] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2008): From Path Dependence to Path Departure: The Changing Public-Private Mix in Europe. [Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe (GOSPE Final Conference), Mannheim, December 04th to December 06th, 2008] more
Wiß, Tobias, and Mareike Gronwald (2008): Germany - Departing from Bismarckian Pensions?. [Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe (GOSPE): Cross-national Variations in Participation and Social Inequality (GOSPE-workshop), Mannheim, February 21st to February 23rd, 2008] more
Wiß, Tobias, and Mareike Gronwald (2008): Germany - Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions?. [Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe (GOSPE Final Project Conference), Mannheim, December 04th to December 06th, 2008] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2008): Supplementary pension systems in Europe: Germany in comparison. [ESPAnet Doctoral Research Workshop "The Politics of Recalibration: Welfare Reforms in the Wider Europe", Bologna, June 05th to June 07th, 2008] more
Gronwald, Mareike, and Tobias Wiß (2008): Supplementary pension systems in Europe: Germany in comparison. [Welfare State Institutions and Welfare State Outcomes, EQUALSOC/TRALEG-Workshop, Mannheim, March 06th to March 08th, 2008] more
Gronwald, Mareike (2008): The Changing Public-Private Mix : German Supplementary Pensions in Comparison. [4th International Conference on Welfare State Change: Policy Feedback, the Role of Ideas, and Incrementalism., Aalborg, January 30th to February 01st, 2008] more
Neugschwender, Jörg (2008): Supplementary Pensions in a Comparative Perspective: Inequality Patterns in Recipient's Share and Income. [Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe (GOSPE Final Project Conference), Mannheim, December 04th to December 06th, 2008] more
Wiß, Tobias (2008): Changing Pension-Mix and Coordinated Market Economy. [ECPR Standing Group Regulatory Governance: (Re)-Regulation in the Wake of Neoliberalism, Utrecht, June 05th to June 07th, 2008] more
Wiß, Tobias (2008): Die Rolle der Sozialpartner im System der Alterssicherung in Deutschland. [7. Graduiertenkolloquium des Forschungsnetzwerkes Alterssicherung, Erkner, July 10th to July 11th, 2008] more
Wiß, Tobias (2008): From Above or from Below? State Regulation and Social Partners in Occupational Pensions in Germany. [6th Annual ESPAnet Conference 2008: Cross-Border Influence in Social Policy, Helsinki, September 18th to September 20th, 2008] more
Wiß, Tobias (2008): Governance and Regulation of Supplementary Pensions in Europe. [Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe (GOSPE Final Project Conference), Mannheim, December 04th to December 06th, 2008] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2007): Collective and State Regulation of Occupational Pensions in Europe. [Workshop on Korean Pension Policy in Comparative Context, Yonsei University, Seoul, July 07th, 2007] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2007): The Collective Regulation of Occupational Pensions in Europe, Japan, and the USA. [102nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 11th to August 14th, 2007] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): Are employment regimes in sync with "varieties of capitalism"? The Case of Early Retirement. [Lecture, Nuffield College, Oxford University, November 01st, 2006] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): Getting into and out of the Continental Impasse. [Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis, AIAS, University of Amsterdam, April 07th to April 08th, 2006] more
Schulze, Isabelle, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus (2006): Krise und Reform der Alterssicherung in Europa. [Autorentagung des Archivs für Sozialgeschichte, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, October 12th to October 13th, 2006] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): The Better Side of Private Pensions: Collective and State Regulation of Occupational Pensions. [International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 30th to April 01st, 2006] more
Schulze, Isabelle (2006): Electoral Threat in Pension Policy. [13th International FISS Research Seminar on Issues of Social Security "Social Protection in an Ageing World", Sigtuna, June 16th to June 18th, 2006] more
Schulze, Isabelle (2006): Electoral Threat: Pension Policy in Europe. [4th Annual ESPAnet Conference 2006 “Transformation of the Welfare State: Political Regulation and Social Inequality”; Stream 12 chaired by David Natali: “New Trends in Pension Policy and Politics”, Bremen, September 21st to September 23rd, 2006] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2005): Der Anfang vom Ende der Frühverrentung? Reformerfahrungen in Europa, USA und Japan im Vergleich. [Alternswissenschaftliche und alternspolitische Vortragsreihe des Deutschen Zentrums für Altersfragen (DZA) - Kolloquium, Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (DZA), Berlin, September 15th, 2005] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2005): Social Partners between Welfare State and Market Economy: Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA. [DAAD-Stipendiatentreffen, Universität Mannheim, May 21st, 2005] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2005): The Better Side of Private Pensions: Collective and State Regulation of Occupational Pensions. [European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet), Fribourg, September 22nd to September 24th, 2005] more