Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim and Professor of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He was Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, and visiting professor at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Jena. His main research interests are comparative social policy, industrial relations and labour market developments.

• PART I: COMPARING PENSION PRIVATIZATION IN EUROPE ; 1. Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe ; 2. The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure ; PART II: BISMARCKIAN LATE-COMERS TO MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 3. Belgium: The Paradox of Persisting Voluntarism in a Corporatist Welfare State ; 4. France: Promoting Funded Pensions in Bismarckian Corporatism? ; 5. Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions ; 6. Italy: From Bismarckian Pensions to Multipillarization under Adverse Conditions ; PART III: EMERGENT NORDIC MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 7. Denmark: The Silent Revolution toward a Multipillar Pension System ; 8. Finland: From Statutory Pension Dominance towards Voluntary Private Schemes ; 9. Sweden: A Viable Public-Private Pension System ; PART IV: MATURE MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 10. Great Britain: Exhausted Voluntarism - The Evolution of Britain's Hybrid Pension Regime ; 11. The Netherlands: Adapting a Multipillar Pension System to Demographic and Economic Change ; 12. Switzerland: Regulating a Public-Private Heritage of Multipillar Pension Governance ; PART V: COMPARING PENSION SYSTEMS AND THEIR OUTCOME ; 13. The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe ; 14. The Public-Private Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in Europe

Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim and Professor of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He was Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, and visiting professor at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Jena. His main research interests are comparative social policy, industrial relations and labour market developments.

• PART I: COMPARING PENSION PRIVATIZATION IN EUROPE ; 1. Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe ; 2. The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure ; PART II: BISMARCKIAN LATE-COMERS TO MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 3. Belgium: The Paradox of Persisting Voluntarism in a Corporatist Welfare State ; 4. France: Promoting Funded Pensions in Bismarckian Corporatism? ; 5. Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions ; 6. Italy: From Bismarckian Pensions to Multipillarization under Adverse Conditions ; PART III: EMERGENT NORDIC MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 7. Denmark: The Silent Revolution toward a Multipillar Pension System ; 8. Finland: From Statutory Pension Dominance towards Voluntary Private Schemes ; 9. Sweden: A Viable Public-Private Pension System ; PART IV: MATURE MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 10. Great Britain: Exhausted Voluntarism - The Evolution of Britain's Hybrid Pension Regime ; 11. The Netherlands: Adapting a Multipillar Pension System to Demographic and Economic Change ; 12. Switzerland: Regulating a Public-Private Heritage of Multipillar Pension Governance ; PART V: COMPARING PENSION SYSTEMS AND THEIR OUTCOME ; 13. The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe ; 14. The Public-Private Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in Europe

Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim and Professor of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He was Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, and visiting professor at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Jena. His main research interests are comparative social policy, industrial relations and labour market developments.

• PART I: COMPARING PENSION PRIVATIZATION IN EUROPE ; 1. Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe ; 2. The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure ; PART II: BISMARCKIAN LATE-COMERS TO MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 3. Belgium: The Paradox of Persisting Voluntarism in a Corporatist Welfare State ; 4. France: Promoting Funded Pensions in Bismarckian Corporatism? ; 5. Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions ; 6. Italy: From Bismarckian Pensions to Multipillarization under Adverse Conditions ; PART III: EMERGENT NORDIC MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 7. Denmark: The Silent Revolution toward a Multipillar Pension System ; 8. Finland: From Statutory Pension Dominance towards Voluntary Private Schemes ; 9. Sweden: A Viable Public-Private Pension System ; PART IV: MATURE MULTIPILLAR PENSION SYSTEMS ; 10. Great Britain: Exhausted Voluntarism - The Evolution of Britain's Hybrid Pension Regime ; 11. The Netherlands: Adapting a Multipillar Pension System to Demographic and Economic Change ; 12. Switzerland: Regulating a Public-Private Heritage of Multipillar Pension Governance ; PART V: COMPARING PENSION SYSTEMS AND THEIR OUTCOME ; 13. The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe ; 14. The Public-Private Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in Europe