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Perceived pension injustice: A multidimensional model for two most‐different cases
Author(s) -
Sabbagh Clara,
Vanhuysse Pieter
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12047
Subject(s) - injustice , pension , solidarity , democracy , normative , welfare state , demographic economics , position (finance) , perception , social position , sociology , social psychology , political science , psychology , economics , social relation , politics , law , finance , neuroscience
This article analyses a nationally representative sample of 3,000 respondents from the 2006 wave of the I nternational S ocial J ustice P roject to investigate the determinants of citizens' perceptions of the injustice of their country's prevalent pension system. We studied two ‘most‐different’ cases: I srael, a relatively new democracy and demographically young society, and W estern G ermany, an established democracy and demographically older society. We found that age is negatively associated, and social status positively associated, with reported levels of PPI . Moreover, PPI is higher both when citizens lack intra‐familial social solidarity and when they more strongly endorse pro‐state welfare attitudes. At the same time, there are distinct culture‐specific patterns in PPI , such as the stronger effect of subjective class position and pro‐social family norms in I srael. We explain these by reference to the institutional characteristics of the Israeli pension system and the particularly dominant normative position of the family in Israeli‐Jewish culture.