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.

Policy experts advance our understanding of the labor market experiences of older workers while pointing our that current workforce programs often leave this growing population underserved.

This volume explores the implications of an aging workforce for a number of social programs in the coming decades, and point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those programs.