Bernard Casey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4159713 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bernard Casey |
| PRENOMES | Bernard |
| SOBRENOME | Casey |
| ASSINATURA | CASEY B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5349-3257 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Cashing out pension savings
This article examines premature withdrawals from pension funds that were initiated as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks at withdrawal programmes both in emerging market and in advanced economies. Although measures might have been expedient in countries where social protection systems (social assistance and job furlough schemes) are relatively underdeveloped, they could also be regressive. Furthermore, they undermined the concept of pen…
Pension systems in south-eastern Europe
Many south-east European states made the transition from socialist to market economies. All described here had to reform their pension systems to match the new context in which these operated. The experiences of 10 countries are reviewed – seven of which were once part of Yugoslavia. Some countries’ reforms were more radical than others. Five of them merely adapted the Bismarckian systems they had inherited; four others adopted the “three pillar”…
From pension funds to piggy banks
As part of their strategy for economic and monetary union, E uropean governments committed themselves to fiscal discipline – particularly by placing limits on annual deficits and on public debt. Subsequently, and as they sought to respond to the “current crisis”, they embraced the view that only if public finances were kept under control would sustainable recovery be possible. Rules of fiscal governance were strengthened. To help them meet these …
Voluntary Pension Saving for Old Age
Fiscal pressure and demographic change lead governments to seek ways of reducing state expenditure on pensions. Individuals are asked to take more responsibility, and funded, supplementary pension schemes have been established in many countries. This article looks at schemes that are voluntary – the NEST or Personal Accounts scheme in Britain and the Riester Pension scheme in Germany. It examines the debate about whether it is worthwhile for some…
The implications of the economic crisis for pensions and pension policy in Europe
The financial crisis has affected European pensions in both the short and longer term. Members of funded pension systems nearing retirement experienced a sharp contraction in pension wealth as equity markets fell. Market turmoil has damaged public trust in such schemes and has caused employers to revise their pension obligations. Countries running funded schemes based on a share of mandatory contributions are faced with rising transition costs as…
Pensions in Nigeria
In 2004, Nigeria copied the 1981 Chilean pension reform and established a funded system based upon personal accounts. The new system was neither appropriate for a country such as Nigeria, nor did it meet aspirations of improving pension coverage or helping economic growth. The current financial and economic crisis hit the scheme in so far as it hit stock values. However, more important has been the negative real interest rates that can be earned …
Social pensions and policy learning
In the last decade and particularly since the publication of the Millennium Development Goals, social pensions have captured the interest of those concerned with the well‐being of older people across that large part of the world where formal, contributions‐financed, old‐age benefit systems cover only a minority of the population. International organizations have turned their attention to such schemes and some see them as having a valuable role to…
Policy learning and social protection
This special issue of the Review has brought examples of the development of social protection policies and programmes that show whether, and if so how, reference to foreign experience has been made. It has sought to ask to what extent a learning process has occurred and to what extent policy-making in any one country can profit from an examination of proposals and solutions developed in another. Whilst doing this, it has paid attention to the rol…
Learning across borders
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) has always had as one of its missions the exchange of information between member organizations in order to assist them to learn about common challenges and efforts taken to meet them. The International Social Security Review has long been one of the vehicles by which such information has been distributed. It has provided a forum where policy-makers can articulate and explain in a thoughtful fas…
The economic contribution of PhDs
This paper looks at what the value of a doctorate is, both to employers in particular and to society and the economy at large. Given the emphasis many universities and funding agencies/governments are putting upon the development of PhD programmes, this is an issue deserving attention. The paper tries to show how two separate but interrelated questions 'What is a doctorate worth?' and 'Is there a justification for society to subsidise the product…
Pension Reform in Nigeria
While the Chilean pension reform has received considerable attention, its emulation in Nigeria has not. This article is the first in-depth analysis of the Nigerian reform. It suggests that the Nigerian authorities failed to learn the lessons of Chile. They transposed a system that both failed to serve the country from which it was copied and that is inappropriate to the country to which it was copied. For countries such as Nigeria, alternative fo…
The OECD Jobs Strategy and the European Employment Strategy
High unemployment in the 1990s prompted policy responses at supranational as well as national levels, notably the OECD Jobs Strategy and the European Employment Strategy. Both strategies reflect a supply-side orientation, but the European strategy pays more attention to the role of ‘social partners’, the potential negative consequences of certain policy responses, and the interconnections between employment and social protection policies. Each st…
Pension reform in the Baltic States
The Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – join the European Union in 2004. This paper examines pension reform in the three countries over the past decade in the light of the “European social model” and the “World Bank model”. Part one seeks to define these two models. It shows how the former emphasizes income adequacy and solidarity while the latter stresses fiscal sustainability, savings and economic growth. Part two looks at reforms m…
Why People Don't Choose Private Pensions
Pension privatisation requires that people exercise choice. They might have to choose whether to opt out of a public scheme into a private scheme, or whether to supplement public pension contributions with private pension contributions. If they do choose to participate in a private scheme, they are likely to have to choose how their savings are to be invested. This paper looks at whether people are happy to opt for private solutions, and particul…
How Will We Provide and Pay for Long-Term Care
Ageing produces not only financial dependency but also physical dependency. The projected fiscal costs of increased long-term care provision can be higher than those of increased pension provision. Cost projections can be questioned for failing to take account of increased demands for formal care as female labour force participation rises and as social constrains and household structures supportive of informal caring disappear. New ways are neede…
The Public Finance Implications of Private Pensions
In an effort to take the costs of pensions "off the books", many have advocated giving a greater role to funded benefits, privately provided. However, where governments have adopted such an approach, they have both mandated contributions to the private schemes and sought, in the interests of consumer protection, to regulate them. Moreover, in many cases, either explicitly or implicitly, they have made some guarantees about the benefits that will …
Museums and galleries
The art trade
Television and radio
Film, cinema and video
Employment in the cultural sector
Paying for Early Retirement
The paper looks at the relative importance of state benefits, employer benefits and private sources in supporting early retired men. Using data from various administrative sources, the General Household Survey and the Family Expenditure Survey, it shows how the increase in early retirement which occurred between 1979 and 1986 went hand in hand both with a greater reliance on means-tested benefits and a greater reliance on employer benefits. Altho…
A more polarised labour market
Marginal” Groups in the Labour Force Survey
This paper examines British Labor Force Survey data on self-employed workers, temporary workers, older workers/early retirees, and the long-term unemployed. It shows how a considerable number of temporary workers are also self-employed, many older workers have temporary jobs, and many of the long-term unemployed are also old and effectively early retired. The phenomenon of overlaps emphasizes the need to understand the dynamics of labor market pr…
Early Retired or Long-Term Unemployed
The paper examines the appropriateness of the epithet 'a growth of early retirement' to describe the falling labour force participation of older men in Britain since the end of the 1970s. It refers to statistical explanations of age specific labour force participation and draws extensively on Labour Force Survey data to describe the subjective and objective characteristics of those aged 55-64 who are not in paid employment. Whilst there is eviden…
Early Retired or Long-Term Unemployed
The paper examines the appropriateness of the epithet 'a growth of early retirement' to describe the falling labour force participation of older men in Britain since the end of the 1970s. It refers to statistical explanations of age specific labour force participation and draws extensively on Labour Force Survey data to describe the subjective and objective characteristics of those aged 55-64 who are not in paid employment. Whilst there is eviden…
Self-Employment in Great Britain
Pension reform in the Baltic States
The Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – join the European Union in 2004. This paper examines pension reform in the three countries over the past decade in the light of the “European social model” and the “World Bank model”. Part one seeks to define these two models. It shows how the former emphasizes income adequacy and solidarity while the latter stresses fiscal sustainability, savings and economic growth. Part two looks at reforms m…
The implications of the economic crisis for pensions and pension policy in Europe
The financial crisis has affected European pensions in both the short and longer term. Members of funded pension systems nearing retirement experienced a sharp contraction in pension wealth as equity markets fell. Market turmoil has damaged public trust in such schemes and has caused employers to revise their pension obligations. Countries running funded schemes based on a share of mandatory contributions are faced with rising transition costs as…
Social pensions and policy learning
In the last decade and particularly since the publication of the Millennium Development Goals, social pensions have captured the interest of those concerned with the well‐being of older people across that large part of the world where formal, contributions‐financed, old‐age benefit systems cover only a minority of the population. International organizations have turned their attention to such schemes and some see them as having a valuable role to…
The economic contribution of PhDs
This paper looks at what the value of a doctorate is, both to employers in particular and to society and the economy at large. Given the emphasis many universities and funding agencies/governments are putting upon the development of PhD programmes, this is an issue deserving attention. The paper tries to show how two separate but interrelated questions 'What is a doctorate worth?' and 'Is there a justification for society to subsidise the product…
Pension Reform in Nigeria
While the Chilean pension reform has received considerable attention, its emulation in Nigeria has not. This article is the first in-depth analysis of the Nigerian reform. It suggests that the Nigerian authorities failed to learn the lessons of Chile. They transposed a system that both failed to serve the country from which it was copied and that is inappropriate to the country to which it was copied. For countries such as Nigeria, alternative fo…
From pension funds to piggy banks
As part of their strategy for economic and monetary union, E uropean governments committed themselves to fiscal discipline – particularly by placing limits on annual deficits and on public debt. Subsequently, and as they sought to respond to the “current crisis”, they embraced the view that only if public finances were kept under control would sustainable recovery be possible. Rules of fiscal governance were strengthened. To help them meet these …
The extent and nature of temporary employment in Great Britain
Early retirement
Voluntary Pension Saving for Old Age
Fiscal pressure and demographic change lead governments to seek ways of reducing state expenditure on pensions. Individuals are asked to take more responsibility, and funded, supplementary pension schemes have been established in many countries. This article looks at schemes that are voluntary – the NEST or Personal Accounts scheme in Britain and the Riester Pension scheme in Germany. It examines the debate about whether it is worthwhile for some…
Pension systems in south-eastern Europe
Many south-east European states made the transition from socialist to market economies. All described here had to reform their pension systems to match the new context in which these operated. The experiences of 10 countries are reviewed – seven of which were once part of Yugoslavia. Some countries’ reforms were more radical than others. Five of them merely adapted the Bismarckian systems they had inherited; four others adopted the “three pillar”…
Pensions in Nigeria
In 2004, Nigeria copied the 1981 Chilean pension reform and established a funded system based upon personal accounts. The new system was neither appropriate for a country such as Nigeria, nor did it meet aspirations of improving pension coverage or helping economic growth. The current financial and economic crisis hit the scheme in so far as it hit stock values. However, more important has been the negative real interest rates that can be earned …
Paying for Early Retirement
The paper looks at the relative importance of state benefits, employer benefits and private sources in supporting early retired men. Using data from various administrative sources, the General Household Survey and the Family Expenditure Survey, it shows how the increase in early retirement which occurred between 1979 and 1986 went hand in hand both with a greater reliance on means-tested benefits and a greater reliance on employer benefits. Altho…
Learning across borders
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) has always had as one of its missions the exchange of information between member organizations in order to assist them to learn about common challenges and efforts taken to meet them. The International Social Security Review has long been one of the vehicles by which such information has been distributed. It has provided a forum where policy-makers can articulate and explain in a thoughtful fas…
Why People Don't Choose Private Pensions
Pension privatisation requires that people exercise choice. They might have to choose whether to opt out of a public scheme into a private scheme, or whether to supplement public pension contributions with private pension contributions. If they do choose to participate in a private scheme, they are likely to have to choose how their savings are to be invested. This paper looks at whether people are happy to opt for private solutions, and particul…
The Public Finance Implications of Private Pensions
In an effort to take the costs of pensions "off the books", many have advocated giving a greater role to funded benefits, privately provided. However, where governments have adopted such an approach, they have both mandated contributions to the private schemes and sought, in the interests of consumer protection, to regulate them. Moreover, in many cases, either explicitly or implicitly, they have made some guarantees about the benefits that will …
Film, cinema and video
A more polarised labour market
Work and Retirement
I found Work and Retirement both stimulating and pleasurable reading. It covers a wide variety of complex topics in a forthright fashion and draws on the majority of relevant research in the process. Topics include a history of retirement, achievements and problems that result from retirement, definitions and concepts, theories of adjustment to retirement, preparing for retirement, the capacity of older people for work, the experience of retireme…
Integrating young persons into work
The Dual Apprenticeship System and the Recruitment and Retention of Young Persons in West Germany
Back to the poor law? The emergence of ‘workfare’ in Britain, Germany and the USA
The extent and nature of temporary employment in Great Britain
Early retirement
Self-Employment in Great Britain
Marginal” Groups in the Labour Force Survey
This paper examines British Labor Force Survey data on self-employed workers, temporary workers, older workers/early retirees, and the long-term unemployed. It shows how a considerable number of temporary workers are also self-employed, many older workers have temporary jobs, and many of the long-term unemployed are also old and effectively early retired. The phenomenon of overlaps emphasizes the need to understand the dynamics of labor market pr…
Early Retired or Long-Term Unemployed
The paper examines the appropriateness of the epithet 'a growth of early retirement' to describe the falling labour force participation of older men in Britain since the end of the 1970s. It refers to statistical explanations of age specific labour force participation and draws extensively on Labour Force Survey data to describe the subjective and objective characteristics of those aged 55-64 who are not in paid employment. Whilst there is eviden…
A more polarised labour market
Paying for Early Retirement
The paper looks at the relative importance of state benefits, employer benefits and private sources in supporting early retired men. Using data from various administrative sources, the General Household Survey and the Family Expenditure Survey, it shows how the increase in early retirement which occurred between 1979 and 1986 went hand in hand both with a greater reliance on means-tested benefits and a greater reliance on employer benefits. Altho…
Museums and galleries
The art trade
Television and radio
Film, cinema and video
Employment in the cultural sector
The Public Finance Implications of Private Pensions
In an effort to take the costs of pensions "off the books", many have advocated giving a greater role to funded benefits, privately provided. However, where governments have adopted such an approach, they have both mandated contributions to the private schemes and sought, in the interests of consumer protection, to regulate them. Moreover, in many cases, either explicitly or implicitly, they have made some guarantees about the benefits that will …
Why People Don't Choose Private Pensions
Pension privatisation requires that people exercise choice. They might have to choose whether to opt out of a public scheme into a private scheme, or whether to supplement public pension contributions with private pension contributions. If they do choose to participate in a private scheme, they are likely to have to choose how their savings are to be invested. This paper looks at whether people are happy to opt for private solutions, and particul…
How Will We Provide and Pay for Long-Term Care
Ageing produces not only financial dependency but also physical dependency. The projected fiscal costs of increased long-term care provision can be higher than those of increased pension provision. Cost projections can be questioned for failing to take account of increased demands for formal care as female labour force participation rises and as social constrains and household structures supportive of informal caring disappear. New ways are neede…
The OECD Jobs Strategy and the European Employment Strategy
High unemployment in the 1990s prompted policy responses at supranational as well as national levels, notably the OECD Jobs Strategy and the European Employment Strategy. Both strategies reflect a supply-side orientation, but the European strategy pays more attention to the role of ‘social partners’, the potential negative consequences of certain policy responses, and the interconnections between employment and social protection policies. Each st…
Pension reform in the Baltic States
The Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – join the European Union in 2004. This paper examines pension reform in the three countries over the past decade in the light of the “European social model” and the “World Bank model”. Part one seeks to define these two models. It shows how the former emphasizes income adequacy and solidarity while the latter stresses fiscal sustainability, savings and economic growth. Part two looks at reforms m…
Pension Reform in Nigeria
While the Chilean pension reform has received considerable attention, its emulation in Nigeria has not. This article is the first in-depth analysis of the Nigerian reform. It suggests that the Nigerian authorities failed to learn the lessons of Chile. They transposed a system that both failed to serve the country from which it was copied and that is inappropriate to the country to which it was copied. For countries such as Nigeria, alternative fo…
Social pensions and policy learning
In the last decade and particularly since the publication of the Millennium Development Goals, social pensions have captured the interest of those concerned with the well‐being of older people across that large part of the world where formal, contributions‐financed, old‐age benefit systems cover only a minority of the population. International organizations have turned their attention to such schemes and some see them as having a valuable role to…
Policy learning and social protection
This special issue of the Review has brought examples of the development of social protection policies and programmes that show whether, and if so how, reference to foreign experience has been made. It has sought to ask to what extent a learning process has occurred and to what extent policy-making in any one country can profit from an examination of proposals and solutions developed in another. Whilst doing this, it has paid attention to the rol…
Learning across borders
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) has always had as one of its missions the exchange of information between member organizations in order to assist them to learn about common challenges and efforts taken to meet them. The International Social Security Review has long been one of the vehicles by which such information has been distributed. It has provided a forum where policy-makers can articulate and explain in a thoughtful fas…
Economics (23 obras) · Business (20 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Finance (11 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 obras) · Labour economics (10 obras) · Pension (10 obras) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (10 obras) · Economic growth (9 obras) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (9 obras)