The government’s responses to incompatibility challenges to women: the case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan

Yu, Sam Wai-Kam; Chau, Chui-Man (Ruby); Li, Sze-Man; Lee, Mei-Yin (Anna)

Abstract

International organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank raise concerns about the financial sustainability issues of pension systems. These issues have attracted increasing attention because of the challenges presented by lower growth and financial market volatility, making it harder for governments to fulfil their promises on pension policies (Ebbinghaus, 2011). In order to tackle these challenges, it is not uncommon that governments reform pension schemes with an emphasis on individual responsibility (Yeh et al., 2018). They particularly stress the earnings-related pension measures as an important means to assist people to accumulate pension income (Foster, 2014). Employees are the target group for measures relating to earnings-related pension measures. The amount of pension income accumulated through these measures is highly related to employees' earnings.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 13, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Dec 10, 2020
• Publication Date: 2021-03
• Deposit Date: Feb 1, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 11, 2021
• Journal: Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
• Print ISSN: 2169-9763
• Electronic ISSN: 2169-978X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 50-61
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2020.33
• Keywords: Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Sociology and Political Science; Health(social science)
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5286398
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-international-and-comparative-social-policy/article/abs/governments-responses-to-incompatibility-challenges-to-women-the-case-studies-of-hong-kong-and-taiwan/AAF32EA55ACEAA2D9BBDD48371E01623