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Pensions at a Crossroad Between Social Rights and Financial Markets: Which Way to Be Chosen?

In: The Future of Pension Plans in the EU Internal Market

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  • Nazaré Costa Cabral

    (University of Lisbon, Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade)

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Departing from the two basic historical models of social protection, the Bismarckian or labour model and the Beveridgean or universal model, the author proceeds with analysing two contrasting alternatives for the future design of pension systems: (i) The individual insurance model; (ii) The universal tax-financed model. Although motivated by common drivers—an ageing society and technological revolution—the responses and incentives are substantially (philosophically) different. Ultimately, there is a tension between social rights and financial markets that may end up with the predominance of one over the other. In the current (liberalizing) environment and considering past and recent EU policy guidance on this matter—the timidity of the social-rights centred strategy (contained in the European Pillar of Social Rights) in contrast with the impulse given to the development of the Capital Markets Union—may after all mean the triumph of a financial market-driven approach.

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  • Nazaré Costa Cabral, 2019. "Pensions at a Crossroad Between Social Rights and Financial Markets: Which Way to Be Chosen?," Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, in: Nazaré da Costa Cabral & Nuno Cunha Rodrigues (ed.), The Future of Pension Plans in the EU Internal Market, pages 225-253, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:fimchp:978-3-030-29497-7_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29497-7_14
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