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FOUR PILLARS
Head of Research: Geneviève Reday-Mulvey
► The research programme
► Seminars and conferences over the last 6 years
► The research programme
The Four Pillars Programme of The Geneva Association is a research programme set up in 1987 with the aim of studying the key importance in the new service economy of Social Security, Insurance, Savings and Employment. The programme focuses on the future of pensions, welfare and employment.
The main reasons for this programme have been:
■ complementarity between social security and insurance;
■ the changing perspective of the welfare state, employment and the life-cycles;
■ changing demography and its financing impact.
The Geneva Association launched its "Four Pillars" Research Programme with a view to identifying possible solutions to the issue of the future financing of pensions and, more generally, to organising social security systems. Demographic trends – especially increased life expectancy – could be seen as positive if we were able to devise ways of enabling "ageing in good-health populations" to make a valid economic and social contribution to the functioning of our service economies over the decades to come.
The concept of the Four Pillars owes its origin to the fact that, in most countries, the funding of pensions is based on three pillars:
■ the 1st pillar – the compulsory, pay-as-you-go, state pension;
■ the 2nd pillar – the supplementary (often funded-based) occupational pension;
■ the 3rd pillar – individual savings (personal pension and assets and life insurance).
In our publications and seminars, we have advocated the adaptation of the 1st pillar, a strengthening of the 2nd pillar and further development of 3rd pillar resources. More recently, our attention has focused above all on a 4th pillar, i.e. the need for a flexible extension of work-life, mainly on a part-time basis, in order to supplement income from the three existing pillars for future years.
The research programme has four main objectives:
■ analysis of the key elements in organising old-age security systems;
■ research of conditions for multi-pillar systems of pension financing;
■ encouragement of multiple and complementary solutions to the challenges of a changing welfare state;
■ understanding the role of insurance in the provision of old-age security systems.
► The Silver Workers Institute
Created in 2007, the Silver Workers Institute is an independent and apolitical research and information centre based in Geneva with an international focus on labour/work issues for seniors engaged in any productive activity, from both a company and public policy perspective. More...
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► Seminars and conferences over the last 6 years
National Conference on Positive Aging, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Florida, 7-9 December 2009. Presentation by Prof. Deller.
World Ageing and Generations Congress, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Organisation of three sessions by The Geneva Association and the Silver Workers Institute: Silver Workers—Individual and Policy Perspectives, with speakers from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K. and France (presentation: Silver Workers: Key Issues and Policies in Europe); Silver Workers—Meeting Company Challenges, with speakers from the U.K., Switzerland and Belgium; and Silver Workers—Coordinating Public Policies and Key Factors, with speakers from Switzerland, France and Australia.
World Congress of Gerontology, Paris, 5-9 July 2009. Organisation of a session by The Geneva Association and the Silver Workers Institute, with speakers from the U.S., U.K., France, the Netherlands and Germany. Presentation of a paper Key Policies and Practices for Silver Work in Europe, by G. Reday-Mulvey.
The Geneva Association, Macros and The Risk Institute, The New Welfare: The Counter Ageing Society, 8 October 2007, Turin
ISSA (International Social Security Association), 3rd International Research Conference on Social Security “Social Security and the Labour Market: A Mismatch?”, 5-7 March 2007, Warsaw. The Geneva Association organised and chaired the session “Can Insurance and Savings Mechanisms encourage Labour market Flexibility?”
Conference at the University of Geneva, Chances et Défis du Vieillissement, 6-11 November 2006, Geneva.
Congress VIVA 50+ – World Ageing and Generations Congress, 29 September-1 October 2005, St Gallen. The Geneva Association organised and chaired two sessions on The Future of Pensions and on Policies for Senior Employment.
2nd Conference on Health, Ageing and Work, with the support of the Central European Initiative and hosted by Assicurazioni Generali, 21-22 October 2004, Trieste.
The Economics of an Ageing Society: The Future of Funded Systems in Europe, organised jointly with SwissRe and Avenir Suisse, 27-28 November 2003, Zurich.
Work Beyond 60: Preparing for the Demographic Shock, joint conference with the Club of Rome and the Risk Institute, 6-7 March 2003, Vienna.
First Four Pillars Social Security Lecture, Securing the Future for Old Age in Europe, given par Prof. Alan Walker, Sheffield University, 9 April 2002, Madrid.
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► The Geneva Papers on the Four Pillars
Vol. 28, No. 4, October 2003, Studies on the Four Pillars
Vol. 26, No. 4, October 2001, Studies on the Four Pillars
► Etudes et Dossiers on the Four Pillars
No. 335, November 2007, The New Welfare: The Counter-Ageing Society, "Lengthening of Life-cycle, Employment, Pensions and Health", Turin, 8 October 2007.
No. 330, August 2007, Silver Workers : An Empirical Study of Post-Retirement Activities – Economic and Voluntary Work of Retired Staff, Research Report
N0. 316, June 2007 (updated version): The Geneva Association’s Four Pillars Research Programme, Summary of Research Programme “The Four Pillars”, Information, Contacts and Links
No. 312, April 2006: VIVA 50 Plus World Ageing & Generations Congress, St-Gallen, 29 September-1 October 2005
No. 288, December 2004: 2nd Health and Ageing Conference, “Health, Ageing and Work – Strategies for the New Welfare Society in the Larger Europe”, Trieste, 21-23 October 2004
No. 285, September 2004: Follow-up of International Symposium in Cambridge – Public Policy, Ageing and Work and Related Papers on Europe and China
No. 271, June 2003: Work Beyond 60: Preparing for the Demographic Shock, Vienna, 6-7 March 2003
No. 270, June 2006: Public Policy, Ageing and Work – An International Symposium, St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, 17-19 December 2002
No. 268, April 2003: Encouraging an Extended Working Life – Recent Policies and Best Practice in Europe, A report prepared for the Avenir Suisse Foundation
► Books and other publications since 2000
Working Beyond 60 – Key Policies and Practices in Europe, by G. Reday-Mulvey, forewords by P. M. Liedtke and A. Walker, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005.
Encourager une vie professionnelle prolongée, by G. Reday-Mulvey, Avenir Suisse, Zurich, 2002.
The Future of Pensions and Retirement: 10 Key Questions, by the Geneva Association/GINA, Geneva, March 2002.
La Retraite en 10 Questions: L'avenir des Retraites et de la Retraite, by the Geneva Association/GINA, Geneva, October 2000.
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For earlier issues, search into the virtual library.
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The Four Pillars No. 45
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Volume: 45, September 2009
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The Four Pillars No. 44
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Volume: 44, March 2009
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The Four Pillars No. 43
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Volume: 43, September 2008
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The Four Pillars No. 42
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Volume: 42, March 2008
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The Four Pillars No. 41
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Volume: 41, September 2007
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Working Paper Series 357
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Working Paper Series 356
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Anatomy of the credit crisis—An insurance reader from The Geneva Association
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Insurance Economics No. 61
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PROGRES No. 50
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