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Attitudes to Pensions*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

David Piachaud
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One in six of the population is an old-age pensioner and everyone has the prospect of becoming one in their time. It is therefore unsurprising that pensions have been a subject of much political debate. There has, however, been little investigation of what people think about pensions. Politicians have tended to declare that pensions are too low but have in practice been constrained in raising them by their conception of the willingness, or unwillingness, of the working population to pay for higher pensions.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1974 , pp. 137 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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4 Reprinted by permission of Mass-Observation (U.K.) Ltd.

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