This paper seeks to contribute to a forward-looking debate on possible reform options for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP …) and the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP). Even though it focuses on the CPP, most of its analysis applies to the QPP as well … rather analyzes one vital option that has received insufficient attention in previous debates: raising the normal retirement …

consequences for pension policy, with a dramatic reduction in the need for retirement savings and, particularly if accompanied by … work strongly in the direction of even shorter durations of retirement and longer durations of work. These new pressures … retirement years in large numbers, increasing the demand for older workers. On the supply side, there will be a large in increase …

the emergence of a new financial paradigm have transformed both the U.S. pension system and the political debate about its … strengths and the limitations of the existing U.S. pension system. …

retirement income. More precisely, this paper, which is based on two Statistics Canada surveys (Survey of Consumer Finances and … retirement income sources has been realized, while discerning five distinct categories: net government transfer payments, CPP …/QPP benefits, private pensions, investment income and employment income. The situation of older women living alone and of older …

-Sponsored Income Security; (4) Employer-Sponsored Pension Plans; (5) Individual Savings/Registered Retirement Savings Plans; (6 …

Aggregate corporate profits are highly volatile and procyclical. Most dynamic general equilibrium models of the … data, the model delivers profits that are many times more volatile than output. An estimated version of the model implies …

as pensions, retirement investments, or other income supplements from province to province. Using methods proposed by … Security and Guaranteed Income Supplements; (ii) Canada/Quebec pension plan benefits; and (iii) Retirement Investment income …

pension programme raise the question of whether households can make reasonable private retirement saving provision in the …We describe the trajectory of pension reform in the United Kingdom, which has focussed on keeping the cost of public … pension programmes down during a period of steady population ageing whilst attempting to maintain an adequate minimum level of …

This paper explores the meshing of pension politics and financial investment in Canada and the U.S. during the 1990s … legacies in the debate over the reform of earnings-related pension schemes (Canada/Quebec Pension Plan and Social Security). In … investment as part of the 1998 reform of the Canada Pension Plan. In the U.S., policy learning -- the process by which experts …

the Canada/Quebec Pension Plans (C/Q.P.P.) in 1965. More specifically, this analysis underlines the respective role of and … private pensions in Canada. As argued, although the ideas that guided the enactment of C/Q.P.P. stressed the key role of …