Who governs pension indexation? Automatic government and the limits of quiet retrenchment in Europe
Journal of European Social Policy
Published online on March 04, 2026
Abstract
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The literature on pension reform presents pension indexation as an effective tool for ‘quiet retrenchment’ performed through automatic formulas that obscure real losses in purchasing power. But so far, we lacked comparative studies of the long-term ...
The literature on pension reform presents pension indexation as an effective tool for ‘quiet retrenchment’ performed through automatic formulas that obscure real losses in purchasing power. But so far, we lacked comparative studies of the long-term ...