Author: Robert Holzmann
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082136166X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book presents 25 state of the art papers on the conceptual foundations and issues surrounding Non-financial, or Notional, Defined Contribution (NDC), country implementation of NDC (Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden) and case studies for countries where NDC is figured in the reform debate. This book is intended to be a handbook for academics and policy makers who want to become informed about what NDC is and to learn about the pros and cons of this attractive reform proposal.
Pension Reform
Author: Robert Holzmann
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082136166X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book presents 25 state of the art papers on the conceptual foundations and issues surrounding Non-financial, or Notional, Defined Contribution (NDC), country implementation of NDC (Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden) and case studies for countries where NDC is figured in the reform debate. This book is intended to be a handbook for academics and policy makers who want to become informed about what NDC is and to learn about the pros and cons of this attractive reform proposal.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082136166X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book presents 25 state of the art papers on the conceptual foundations and issues surrounding Non-financial, or Notional, Defined Contribution (NDC), country implementation of NDC (Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden) and case studies for countries where NDC is figured in the reform debate. This book is intended to be a handbook for academics and policy makers who want to become informed about what NDC is and to learn about the pros and cons of this attractive reform proposal.
Empty Promises
Author: Elizabeth J. Shilton
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599606
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Workplace pensions are a vital part of Canada’s retirement income system, but these plans have reached a state of crisis as a result of their low coverage and inadequate, insecure, and unequally distributed benefits. Reviewing pension plans through a legal and historical lens, Empty Promises reveals the paradoxical effects and inevitable failure of a pension system built on the interests of employers rather than employees. Elizabeth Shilton examines the evolution of pension law in Canada from the 1870s to the early twenty-first century, highlighting the foreseeably futile struggle of legislators to create and sustain employees’ pension rights without undermining employers’ incentives. The current system gives employers considerable discretion and control in pension design and administration. Shilton appeals for a model that is not hostage to business interests. She recommends replacing today’s employer-controlled systems with pensions shaped by the public interest, expanding mandatory broad-based or state-pension systems such as the Canada Pension Plan to generate pensions that respond to the changing workplace and address the needs and interests of retirees. Engaging with the long-running debate on whether Canadians should look to government or to the private sector for retirement income security, Empty Promises is a crucial work concerned with the future of the Canadian retirement system.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599606
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Workplace pensions are a vital part of Canada’s retirement income system, but these plans have reached a state of crisis as a result of their low coverage and inadequate, insecure, and unequally distributed benefits. Reviewing pension plans through a legal and historical lens, Empty Promises reveals the paradoxical effects and inevitable failure of a pension system built on the interests of employers rather than employees. Elizabeth Shilton examines the evolution of pension law in Canada from the 1870s to the early twenty-first century, highlighting the foreseeably futile struggle of legislators to create and sustain employees’ pension rights without undermining employers’ incentives. The current system gives employers considerable discretion and control in pension design and administration. Shilton appeals for a model that is not hostage to business interests. She recommends replacing today’s employer-controlled systems with pensions shaped by the public interest, expanding mandatory broad-based or state-pension systems such as the Canada Pension Plan to generate pensions that respond to the changing workplace and address the needs and interests of retirees. Engaging with the long-running debate on whether Canadians should look to government or to the private sector for retirement income security, Empty Promises is a crucial work concerned with the future of the Canadian retirement system.
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
Author: Robert Louis Clark
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.
Canadian Regulation of Pension Plans
Author: Frank M. Kleiler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada
Author: K. Bryden
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560661
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Revised thesis comprising a case study of the old age benefit programme in Canada, to illustrate the political aspects and social policy decision making processes of income redistribution - includes references and statistical tables.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560661
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Revised thesis comprising a case study of the old age benefit programme in Canada, to illustrate the political aspects and social policy decision making processes of income redistribution - includes references and statistical tables.
Statistics Canada Catalogue
Author: Statistics Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Trusteed pension plans financial statistics
Author: Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Pensions Section
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Employer Pension Plan Membership and Household Wealth
Author: William R. Waters
Publisher: Philadelphia : S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ; Homewood, Ill : Richard D. Irwin, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Philadelphia : S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ; Homewood, Ill : Richard D. Irwin, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Political Economy of Pensions
Author: Richard Lee Deaton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
In 2011, the 'Baby Boom' generation will begin to retire. Bythen, the stark reality of the 'greying' of the population inNorth America and Western Europe will have brought the inadequacies ofthe state and private pension systems home to all levels of society,and the pension crisis will be actual rather than impending. In The Political Economy of Pensions, Richard Deatonexplores the factors involved in this high-profile issue of publicpolicy and shows the insufficiency of recent reform initiatives inCanada, the United States, and Britain. Four converging considerations explain the imminence of the pensioncrisis. First, while it is commonly assumed that 70 percent ofpre-retirement income will be sufficient for a one-earner couple tomaintain its standard of living, few pensioners receive this amount,and polls show that those not yet retired expect or want full incomereplacement. Second, the proportion of elderly people in the populationwill dramatically increase in coming decades; the number of employedworkers for each retired person will fall from seven to three, whilethe costs for elderly dependants rise. Third, the majority of workersin all three countries have no coverage under employer-sponsoredprivate pension schemes, the percentage of those covered has beendropping in recent years, and many of those who do have privatepensions receive only partial or unindexed payments. Finally, thecorporate sector and the state have been appropriating pension funds asa source of investment and social capital to meet their financialrequirements. The pension system now occupies a strategic economic position inadvanced market economies. Consequently, the conflicting interestsunderlying the pension crisis could generate a heightened awareness ofpower and politics in capitalist countries and increase social tensionsmanifesting themselves through intergenerational, sectoral, political,and industrial relations conflicts. The Political Economy of Pensions identifies personalproblems and structural issues which may have significance in terms ofpower, politics, and social change in the future. This timely andprovocative comparative, interdisciplinary study will be of interest tothose involved in social policy, gerontology, economics, industrialrelations, or social work, and others concerned with pensions and agingor with the social impact of public policies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
In 2011, the 'Baby Boom' generation will begin to retire. Bythen, the stark reality of the 'greying' of the population inNorth America and Western Europe will have brought the inadequacies ofthe state and private pension systems home to all levels of society,and the pension crisis will be actual rather than impending. In The Political Economy of Pensions, Richard Deatonexplores the factors involved in this high-profile issue of publicpolicy and shows the insufficiency of recent reform initiatives inCanada, the United States, and Britain. Four converging considerations explain the imminence of the pensioncrisis. First, while it is commonly assumed that 70 percent ofpre-retirement income will be sufficient for a one-earner couple tomaintain its standard of living, few pensioners receive this amount,and polls show that those not yet retired expect or want full incomereplacement. Second, the proportion of elderly people in the populationwill dramatically increase in coming decades; the number of employedworkers for each retired person will fall from seven to three, whilethe costs for elderly dependants rise. Third, the majority of workersin all three countries have no coverage under employer-sponsoredprivate pension schemes, the percentage of those covered has beendropping in recent years, and many of those who do have privatepensions receive only partial or unindexed payments. Finally, thecorporate sector and the state have been appropriating pension funds asa source of investment and social capital to meet their financialrequirements. The pension system now occupies a strategic economic position inadvanced market economies. Consequently, the conflicting interestsunderlying the pension crisis could generate a heightened awareness ofpower and politics in capitalist countries and increase social tensionsmanifesting themselves through intergenerational, sectoral, political,and industrial relations conflicts. The Political Economy of Pensions identifies personalproblems and structural issues which may have significance in terms ofpower, politics, and social change in the future. This timely andprovocative comparative, interdisciplinary study will be of interest tothose involved in social policy, gerontology, economics, industrialrelations, or social work, and others concerned with pensions and agingor with the social impact of public policies.