Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Ervik, Rune"
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European Pension Policy Initiatives and National Reforms: Between Financial Sustainability and Adequacy
Ervik, Rune (Working Paper, Working paper, 2006-12)The EU Open method of Coordination (OMC) represents one strategy for pension reform that ideally combines agreement on common objectives with different institutional and national approaches as means of reaching these ... -
Global Normative Standards and National Solutions for Pension Provision: The World Bank, ILO, Norway and South Africa in Comparative Perspective
Ervik, Rune (8-2003, Working paper, 2003-04)This paper identifies and describes the normative content of ideas concerning pension systems/social security schemes in terms of the concepts of fairness or justice laid out by two selected international organisations: ... -
The Impact of Institutional Legacies on Active Ageing Policies: Norway and UK as Contrasting Cases
Christensen, Dag Arne; Ervik, Rune; Helgøy, Ingrid (18-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)Increasingly international organisations, national governments and social actors all over the Western world have embraced the concept of «active ageing». The associated policy packages are seen as better ways to address ... -
It happened here: The role of coordinative and communicative discourses in justifying the Norwegian pension reform
Ervik, Rune; Lindén, Tord Skogedal (Working paper; 1-2014, Working paper, 2014-03)Reasoning from the retrenchment literature (e.g. Pierson 2001) Norway should be an unlikely candidate for a major structural pension reform, because of its unique economic situation, with a steadily growing petroleum fund ... -
Making people work longer. Comparing Norwegian and British reform processes, with a sidelong gaze to Sweden
Ervik, Rune; Lindén, Tord Skogedal (Working paper, Working paper, 2013-03)A major strategy of recent pension reforms has been to promote what may be called the «working longer» policy paradigm arguing that working longer represents a win‐win strategy by addressing both the challenge of pension ... -
Overcoming the Barriers and Seizing the Opportunities for Active Ageing in Norway: Report from an Expert Panel Meeting
Ervik, Rune; Helgøy, Ingrid (12-2005, Working paper, 2005-12)This report provides the result from the expert panel meetings as a key element of the sixth work package (WP6) of the Active Ageing project. A main concern of this WP is to identify barriers to active ageing and means to ... -
Rettighetsfesting av BPS. - store forventninger, betinget suksess
Ervik, Rune; Kjerstad, Egil; Lindèn, Tord Skogedal; Rubecksen, Kristin (Research report; Peer reviewed, 2017-09)Rettighetsfestingen av brukerstyrt personlig assistanse (BPA) – § 2‐1 d i pasient‐ og brukerrettighetsloven (PBL) – trådte i kraft 1. januar 2015, og omfatter: Personer under 67 år med langvarig og stort behov for personlig ...