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Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions

Name: Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions
Author: John A. Turner
ISBN: 9780880993548

by John A. Turner

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Overview

Turner begins by providing an exhaustive introduction to and review of the U.S. pension system, then looks at the issues critical to the problems facing the system including mandates, how to extend coverage to more workers, portability and retirement, tax policy, how to manage risk, hybrid plans, financing, drawbacks to dfined contribution and defined benefit plans, and annuitization. Along hte way, he compares the U.S. system to the systems of other developed nations and recommends solutions to the problems he lists based on those comparisons.

Synopsis

This book focuses on current pension policy issues. It takes into account the major changes in the prevalence of pension plans of different types, in pension law, and in the economic analysis of pensions. The book approaches pension policy from different perspectives. One perspective is the international perspective, with a focus on lessons from international experience for U.S. pension policymakers. While attention is paid to the economic analysis of pensions, the book focuses on advancing our understanding of pension policy. The book's goal is to improve pension policy, and ultimately the lives of retirees, in the United States and elsewhere.