@inbook{8e0124a9d7db409b8fc26bfce3560ac7,
title = "Pension reform in the UK: re-casting the public/private mix in pension provision 1997-2000",
abstract = "The UK is one of the few countries in Europe that is not facing a serious pension crisis. The reasons for this are straight forward: state pensions (both in terms of replacement ratio and as a proportion of average earnings) are among the lowest in Europe, the UK has a long-standing funded private pension sector ... and its governments have, since the beginning of the 1980s, taken measures to prevent a pension crisis developing. These measures have involved making systematic cuts in unfunded state pension provisions and increasingly transferring the burden of providing pensions to the funded private sector, principally on a defined contribution basis.",
keywords = "pensions, welfare state, United Kingdom",
author = "Helen Fawcett",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
series = "European Consortium for Political Research",
publisher = "European Consortium for Political Research",
booktitle = "European Consortium for Political Research. Workshop 21: The Politics of Pension Reform",
edition = "21",
}