Employers and collectively negotiated occupational pensions in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: Promoters, vacillators and adversaries

Abstract:

This article develops an analytical model of how and why the political-economic context affects employers’ preferences in using collective agreements to finance and regulate pension schemes. It argues that these preferences are influenced by three domains, the labour market and industrial relations system, public policies and the financial market. The study compares and contrasts three Nordic countries, and reveals how these three mechanisms have generated distinctive trajectories of employer preferences.