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Future pensions: future poverty?
Author(s) -
Carroll Patrick
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00302.x
Subject(s) - poverty , workforce , face (sociological concept) , government (linguistics) , economics , labour economics , development economics , economic growth , political science , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy
The British pensions system is in trouble. The Government is reforming it, but is neglecting multiple blows from demographic decline that will hamstring the new regime. Patrick Carroll finds that increasing numbers of today's workforce will face old age in poverty.