Upjohn Research

Title

Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions

Authors

John A. Turner, Pension Policy CenterFollow

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

Citation

Turner, John A. 2010. Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

ISBN

9780880993548 (pbk) ; 9780880993555 (cloth)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Retirement and pensions; Pensions