Title

Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions

Year

2010

Abstract

Turner identifies the current problems facing pension policy for U.S. employer-provided pension plans and recommends solutions to those problems based on his examination of pension systems in other industrialized nations.

Contents

  1. Introduction to Pension Policy
  2. Mandates: Pathways to Expanding Private Sector Provision
  3. Extending Pension Coverage
  4. Labor Market Policy: Portability and Retirement
  5. Tax Policy: Influencing Coverage and the Structure of Pensions
  6. Managing Pension Risk
  7. Hybrid Plans: The Best of Both Worlds?
  8. Financing Pensions for Adequacy and Security
  9. Pension Benefit Policy: The Search for Lost Pensions and Other Issues
  10. The Decline in Annuitization and How to Reverse It
  11. Finding Better Solutions

ISBN

9780880993548 (pbk) ; 9780880993555 (cloth)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Retirement and pensions; Pensions