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http://www.itinerainstitute.org/en/issues/_issue/pensions/_paper/public-and-private-pensions-lessons-from-the-crisis/
Public and private pensions: Lessons from the crisis
18 January 2010
The population of Europe is ageing and, as a result, pension systems are exposed to major difficulties. This requires measures to increase employment rates, to prolong working lives, promote qualified migration, and to curb, to some extent, income replacement rates. Private pension systems are, just like the public ones, dependent on adequate economic growth rates, as well as being equally sensitive to demographic change; what is more, unlike public systems, they are highly risk-susceptible in relation to financial markets. Therefore, the much lower-risk approach is to secure old-age pensions via public systems, this ETUI article argues.

http://www.etui.org/research/Media/Files/EEEPB/2009/6-2009

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