How should pensions in the UK be indexed?

Published on 7 August 1991

At first sight, the technicalities of social securtiy benefit indexation are a somewhat abstruse topic, suitable only for the journals and handbooks of tax and finance practitioners.

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-5890.1991.tb00161.x/abstract 

<p>At first sight, the technicalities of social securtiy benefit indexation are a somewhat abstruse topic, suitable only for the journals and handbooks of tax and finance practitioners. Yet the nature of benefit indexation systems has major implications both for trends in the living standards of pensioners and for public expenditure.</p>

Authors

Richard Disney
Richard Disney

Research Associate University of Sussex

Richard is an IFS Research Associate, a Part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor of Economics at UCL.

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Edward Whitehouse

Journal article details

ISSN
Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
Issue
August 1991

Suggested citation

Disney, R and Whitehouse, E. (1991). 'How should pensions in the UK be indexed? ' (1991)

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