Olivier Bontout and Georg Fischer
Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
European Commission
Updated for the 9th Annual Joint Conference of the Retirement Research Consortium
“Challenges and Solutions for Retirement Security”
Washington, D.C., 9-10 August 2007.
The nature of the pension challenge is not only about demographic trends. It is also about changes in society and in the labour market. Results from the European process of open coordination in the area of pensions enable to characterise the main features of ongoing pension reforms. Ongoing changes in the labour market and projected impacts of reforms on adequacy and sustainability are essential to monitor. The reforms now seem to focus on a few outstanding issues .
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