Pensions
– Old Age Income
Directory of Internet
Information and Research Resources
Prepared by Dr
Peter Morgan
Melbourne,
Australia
Email
pmorgan@mcmullan.net
About this Directory
This Directory
lists internet sites and internet articles and publications relevant to the
field of pensions and old-age income and the sociology of aging. This version
is a preliminary first cut.
VERSION No 1 August 2004
Selected
Countries
Australia:
links
Association of Superannuation
Funds of Australia
http://www.superannuation.asn.au/home/rpm.cfm?page=main
Australian
Government – Department of Health and Ageing – Office for an Ageing Australia
http://www.ageing.health.gov.au/ofoa/index.htm
Australian
Institute of Superannuation Trustees
Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority
Policy and Research Papers from the Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority
http://www.apra.gov.au/policy/
Australian
Treasury – Superannuation page (includes Working Papers)
http://www.treasury.gov.au/content/superannuation.asp
Selected Reading: Australia
Australian Government (2004) `Amore flexible and
adaptable retirement income system’.
Australian Government – The Treasury (2004)
`Australia’s Demographic Challenge’, discussion
paper.
http://demographics.treasury.gov.au/content/default.asp
Connelly, E and M. Kohler (2004) `The Impact of
Superannuation on Household Saving’, research Discussion Paper, 01, Reserve
Bank of Australia
http://www.rba.gov.au/rdp/RDP2004-01.pdf
Dunsford, G and M. Rice (2004) `Retirement Income
Integration: Superannuation, Social Security and Taxation’, paper for the
Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
http://www.actuaries.asn.au/PublicSite/pdf/Horizonpaper040216.pdf
Thompson, J. (2002-03) `Intergenerational Equity;
Issues of Principle in the Allocation of Social Resources Between this
Generation and the Next’, Research Paper no 7 2002-03, Parliamentary Library,
Parliament of Australia.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rp/2002-03/03RP07.htm#theories
Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia (2002)
Intergenerational Report 2002-2003.
http://www.budget.gov.au/2002-03/bp5/html/01_BP5Prelim.html
Malaysia
Annex B6: Country Profile for Malaysia, in World Bank – Social Protection Unit –
Holzmann, R. et al (2000) Pension Systems in East Asia and the Pacific:
Challenges and Opportunities, Social Protection Discussion Paper No 0014
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/hddocs.nsf/0/4304337865f1a7788525690c0054f031/$FILE/malaysia.pdf
Singapore:
links
Central Provident
Fund Board.
http://www.cpf.gov.sg/cpf_info/home.asp
Selected Reading
Annex B10: Country Profile for Singapore, in World
Bank – Social Protection Unit – Holzmann, R. et al (2000) Pension Systems in
East Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities, Social Protection
Discussion Paper No 0014
Asher, M. (2002) `The Role of the Global Economy in
Financing Old Age: The Case of Singapore’, Asian Development Bank Institute,
Research Paper Series, No 37.
http://www.adbi.org/PDF/wp/rp37.pdf
Asher, M. (2004) `Retirement Financing Dilemmas Facing
Singapore’, paper for the International Conference on Pensions in Asia,
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/pie/Japanese/discussionpaper/dp2003/dp199/text.pdf
Global
and Regional Organizations: links
Asian Development
Bank
Asian Development
Bank – Social Protection
http://www.adb.org/socialprotection/
International
Labour Organization
Social Protection site - International Labour Organization.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/index.htm
International
Monetary Fund
International
Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors
International
Social Security Association
http://www.issa.int/engl/homef.htm
Nouriel Roubini’s
Global Marcoeconomic and Financial Policy Site at the Stern School of Business,
New York University
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/simple_content_frame.html
OEDC –
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – Aging Societies and
the Looming Pension Crisis
http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_2512699_1_1_1_1,00.html
OEDC – Aging
Society page
http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_37435_1_1_1_1_37435,00.html
Publications and Documents from the OEDC
http://www.oecd.org/findDocument/0,2350,en_2649_37435_1_1_1_1_37435,00.html
Working Papers and Reports on Pensions from the OECC
http://www.oecd.org/findDocument/0,2350,en_2649_34853_1_119666_1_1_37435,00.html
OEDC – Pensions,
Pension Funds and Development – papers and documents
http://www.oecd.org/searchResult/0,2665,en_2649_33731_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
Pensions-Research.Org
(The International Pensions Research Network)
Social Security
Online – Office of Policy – International Updates on Pensions
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/intl_update/2004-04/index.html
The Geneva
Association
http://www.genevaassociation.org/index.htm
The World Bank –
Pensions Online
World Bank –
Social Protection Unit – Holzmann, R. et al (2000) Pension Systems in East
Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities, Social Protection
Discussion Paper No 0014
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/hddocs.nsf/0/4304337865F1A7788525690C0054F031?OpenDocument
United Nations –
Department of Economic and Social Affairs – Population Division
http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm
United Nations –
Population Division – World Population Ageing 1950-2050
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldageing19502050/index.htm
Selected Readings
ASRIA. (2002) SRI
and Pensions In Asia, report by the Association for Sustainable and
Responsible Investment in Asia, Hong Kong.
http://www.asria.org/publications/lib/PensionsReport.pdf
Baltes, P. and J.
Smith. (2002) `New Frontiers in the future of aging; From Successful Aging of
the Young Old to the Dilemmas of the Fouth Age’, paper presented at the
Valencia Forum.
http://www.valenciaforum.com/Keynotes/pb.html
BIS (1998) Group
of Ten: The Macroeconomic and Financial Implications of Ageing Populations,
Bank for International Settlements
http://www.bis.org/publ/gten04.pdf#xml=http://search.atomz.com/search/pdfhelper.tk?sp-o=48,100000,0
Borsch-Supan,
(2002) `Aging and International Capital Flows’, Mannheim Research Institute of
Aging
http://www.mea.uni-mannheim.de/mea_neu/pages/files/nopage_pubs/dp10.pdf
Brooks, S. (2002)
`Social Protection and Economic Integration: The Politics of Pension Reform in
an Era of Capital Mobility’, Comparative Political Studies, 35:5,
491-523
http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/sbrooks/brooks.pdf
Coughlin, R.
(2000) `Beyond Redistribution: Binary Economics and the Crisis of the Welfare
State’, The University of Mexico.
http://www.kelsoinstitute.org/pdf/beyondredistribution.pdf
Eberstadt, N. (2004)
`Power and Population in Asia’, Policy Review, 123.
http://www.policyreview.org/feb04/eberstadt_print.html
McGreevey, W. and
F. MacKellar. (2002) `Conflicting Objectives in Social Security Systems’.
http://www.ipea.gov.br/TemasEspeciais/WilliamMcGreevey.PDF
Ney, S. (2000)
`Thinking about pension reform: discources, politics, and public
participation’, paper at Year 2000 International Research Conference on Social
Security, Helsinki
http://www.issa.int/pdf/helsinki2000/topic1/2ney.pdf
OECD (2004)
`Ageing Societies and the Looming Pension Crisis’, briefing paper
http://www.oecd.org/document/59/0,2340,en_2649_201185_2512699_1_1_1_1,00.html
Orszag, P. and J.
Stiglitz. (1999) `Rethinking Pension Reform: Ten Myths About Social Security
Systems’, paper presented at New Ideas About Old Age Security Conference, The
World Bank, Washington
http://www.ourfuture.org/docUploads/20010921135334.pdf
Sen, A. (2000) `Social Exclusion: Concept, Application, and
Scrutiny”, Social Development Papers No 1, Asian Development Bank.
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Social_Exclusion/social_exclusion.pdf.
Vincent, J. (2003)
`New forms of global political economy and ageing societies’, paper for
European Sociological Association conference, Ageing in Europe, Spain.
Research Organizations: links
Centre for Pensions
and Superannuation
http://economics.web.unsw.edu.au/CPS/
Center for
Retirement Research – Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/
Working Papers from Center for Retirement Research –
Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/public_wor.shtml
Harvard
Generations Policy Initiative – includes the Harvard Generations Policy Journal
Institute of
Actuaries of Australia
Working Papers and Publications of the Institute of
Actuaries of Australia
http://www.actuaries.asn.au/PublicSite/publications/publications_frameset.htm
Institute for
Development Policy and Management and The Overseas Development Group –
Non-Contributory Pensions and Poverty Study
http://idpm.man.ac.uk/ncpps/index.htm
London School of
Economics – Global Asset Management Pension Research Programme
Working Papers and Documents of the London School of
Economics – Global Asset Management Pension Research Programme
http://www.lse.ac.uk/ubs/dipare.htm
London School of
Economics – ESRC-Sage – Simulating Social Policy in an Ageing Society
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/sage/
Working papers and Documents of the London School of
Economics – ESRC-Sage – Simulating Social Policy in an Ageing Society
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/sage/discussion.htm
Luxembourg Income
Study
Working Papers from the Luxembourg Income Study
http://www.lisproject.org/publications/wpapers.htm
Michigan
Retirement Research Center
http://www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/
Working Papers from the Michigan Retirement Research
Center
National Bureau of
Economic Research
NBER Retirement
Research Center
http://www.nber.org/programs/ag/rrc/
Working Papers from NBER Retirement Research Center
http://www.nber.org/programs/ag/rrc/books&papers.html#papers
Society of
Actuaries
http://www.soa.org/ccm/content/?categoryID=317001
The Brookings
Institution – Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
http://www.brook.edu/es/dynamics/default.htm
The Institute for
Fiscal Studies – Pensions and Savings
http://www.ifs.org.uk/pensionsindex.shtml
Working papers of The Institute for Fiscal Studies –
Pensions and Savings
http://www.ifs.org.uk/pensions/workingpapers.shtml
The Pensions
Institute – Birkbeck College, University of London
Working papers and Documents of The Pensions Institute
– Birkbeck College, University of London
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/res/pi/wp.html
The Pension
Research Council – the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
http://prc.wharton.upenn.edu/prc/prc.html
Working Papers of The
Pension Research Council
http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~prc/wp2004.html
Advocacy
Organizations: links
Basic Income
http://www.basicincome.qut.edu.au/
Cato Institute
Cato Institute –
Project on Social Security Choice
http://www.socialsecurity.org/
Citizen’s Income
Online
http://www.citizensincome.org/index.shtml
GEMS – Group for
Economic and Market Value Based Studies
http://www.gemstudy.com/index.htm
Working Papers on Defined Benefit Pensions from GEMS
http://www.gemstudy.com/defined_benefit_pensions.htm
id21 Insights –
Insights Issue 42 – Pensions for life: the rise of pensions as a development
issue
http://www.id21.org/insights/insights42/index.html
Pension Watch -
Global Action on Aging
http://www.globalaging.org/pension/index.htm
Industry
Organizations: links
LIMRA – Retirement
Research
http://www.limra.com/Research/NorthAmerica/Retirement.asp
Pendragon
(Perspective) an electronic information service for the UK pensions industry
http://perspective.info/perspective/index.htm
Sebago and
Associates – Social Security and Pensions Web Page
http://www.sbgo.com/sspension.htm
Watson Wyatt
Worldwide
Ageing:
links
Ageing, guide to
links
http://www.worldrevolution.org/guidepage/Ageing/website
Center for the
Study of Aging - RAND
http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/
Publications of the Center for the Study of Aging -
RAND
http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/pubs/index.html
Centre for
Research on Aging and Gender, University of Surrey, UK
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/crag/
Centre for Policy
on Ageing
http://www.cpa.org.uk/index.html
European
Sociological Association
http://www.ageing-in-europe.de/RN_links.htm
Global Action on
Aging
http://www.globalaging.org/index.htm
Global Aging
Initiative
http://www.csis.org/gai/pubs_subject.htm
International
Federation on Ageing
http://www.ifa-fiv.org/en/index.ntd
Global Action on
Aging
http://www.globalaging.org/index.htm
Global Aging
Initiative
http://www.csis.org/gai/pubs_subject.htm
Global Action on
Aging
http://www.globalaging.org/index.htm
Global Aging
Initiative
http://www.csis.org/gai/pubs_subject.htm
The Global
Generations Policy Initiative
http://www.worldrevolution.org/guidepage/Ageing/website
The Valencia Forum
- 2002
Links
Pages – selected comprehensive web pages by topic
Actuarial Science and Actuaries
Links by the Institute of
Actuaries of Australia
http://www.actuaries.asn.au/PublicSite/links/links_frameset.htm
Aging
Links by The European Sociological Association
http://www.ageing-in-europe.de/
Links by Global Action on Aging
http://www.globalaging.org/resources/gaaweblinks.htm
Development
Links by id21 insights
http://www.id21.org/insights/insights42/insights-iss42-sse.html
International Regulators
Links by the Australian Prudential Regulation
Authority
http://www.apra.gov.au/Links/International.cfm
Sample of links on Aging
Links by The European Sociological Association
http://www.ageing-in-europe.de/
The European Sociological
Association (ESA) - link
The Gerontological
Society of America (GSA) - link - conference calendar
The Australian
Association of Gerontology - link
The Section Aging and
Society of the German Sociological Association (GSA) - link
The British Geriatrics
Society - link
The British Society for
Research on Ageing - link
The British Society of Gerontology
- link
The Canadian Association
of Gerontology - link
The Danish Gerontological
Society - link - link2
The European Association
of Geriatric Psychiatry - link
The Finnish
Gerontological Society - link
The Geriatric Society of
India - link
The German Society for
Geriatrics - link
The German Society for
Gerontology and Geriatrics - link
The Gerontological
Society of America - link
The Gerontology Society
of the Russian Academy of Sciences - link
The Hellenic Association
of Gerontology and Geriatrics - link
The Hong Kong Association
of Gerontology - link
The International
Association of Gerontology - link
The International
Association of Gerontology - European Region - link
The International
Institute on Ageing - United Nations Malta - link
The International Network
for Research on Elder Care - link
The International
Psychogeriatric Association - link
The International Society
for Gerontechnology - link
The Israel Gerontological
Society - link
The Maltese Association
of Gerontology and Geriatrics - link
The Netherlands Society
of Gerontology - link
The Research Committee on
the Sociology of Ageing (RC11) of the International Sociological Association
(ISA) - link
Die Schweizerische
Gesellschaft für Gerontologie (in French and German only) - link
La Sociedad Argentina de
Gerontologia y Geriatria - link
La Sociedad Espanola de
Geriatría y Gerontologia - link
Sociedade Brasileira de
Geriatria e Gerontologia - link
La Società Italiana di
Gerontologia e Geriatria - link
La Société Francaise de
Gériatrie et Gérontologie - link
The Swedish Society for
Research on Ageing - link
Selected Institutions
AARP - American
Association of Retired Persons - link
AGE - European Older
People's Platform - link
AGE Concern - Institute
of Gerontology - link
Age Action Ireland - link
Alzheimer-Europe - link
Centre for Policy on
Ageing - link
Center for Policy
Research, Aging Studies Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University - link
Centre for Research on
Ageing and Gender (CRAG) - link
Centre for Social Policy
Research and Development, University of Wales - link
Centro de Investigaciones
Sociológicas - link
The Danish Institute of
Gerontology, Hellerup - link
The Economic Commission
for Europe (ECE)'s programme on population ageing - link
ESHEL-Net, The Network
for Aged in Israel - link
Eurolink Age - link
The European Federation
of the Elderly - Secrétariat Général - link
La Fédération Européenne
des Retraités et Personnes Agées - link
The German Centre for
Research on Ageing - link
The German Centre of
Gerontology - link
The Gerontology Research
Centre - Gerontologiskt Centrum, Lund - link
The Institute for Human
Development, Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto - link
L'Institut National
d'Études Démographiques - link
The JDC-Brookdale
Institute - link
The National Institute on
Aging - link
The Research Group on
Aging and the Life Course (FALL) - link
The Research Group on
Psychogerontology, University of Nijmegen - link
Pro Senectute - Stiftung
für das Alter - link
The Social Gerontology
Group, Uppsala University - link
The Stockholm Gerontology
Research Center - link
The UNC Institute on
Aging - link
The UNO Programme on
Ageing, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Ageing - link
The World Health
Organization - link
Selected Networks, Databases,
Research and Information Projects
The AgeNet Project - link
AgeLine Database provided
by AARP - link
AgeSource Worldwide
Online Database provided by AARP - link
Asset and Health Dynamics
Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) - link
The Berlin Aging Study - link
The Bonn Longitudinal
Study on Aging (BOLSA) - link
The European Alzheimer's
Disease Consortium (EADC) - link
The German Aging Survey -
link (Wave 1) - link2 (Wave 2)
GeroLit - Gerontological
Literature Online - link
GeroLink - Gerontological
Links - link
The Growing Older
Program - link
The Health and Retirement
Study (HRS) - link
INSTRAW Gender Aspects of
Ageing - link
The Interdisciplinary
Longitudinal Study of Adult Development (ILSE) - link
The Longitudinal Aging
Study of Amsterdam (LASA) - link
The Network for European
Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) - link
The Norwegian Life
Course, Ageing and Generations Study (norLAG) - link
The OASIS Research
Project - link
The Swedish National
Study on Aging and Care (SNAC) - link
The Survey of Health,
Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) - link
Web Sites on Aging,
Administration on Aging (AoA) - link