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-Security-covered employment. The prevalence of double pension coverage among government employees has raised serious equity questions about the … treatment of civil servants by Social Security, and these questions have led to various suggestions for pension reform. Partly … double pension coverage of government employees. Our analysis finds: (1) Both the amount of a Federal pension entitlement and …
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The manifest purposes of integrating an employer-provided pension plan with social security are:(1) to ensure … consequences of integrating pension plans with social security …
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Most countries have separate pension plan for public sector employees. The future fiscal burden of these plans can be … substantial as the government usually is the largest employer, pension promises in the public sector tend to be relatively … generous, and future payments have to be paid out directly from government revenues (pay-as-you-go) or by funded plans (pension …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of underfunding of local government's pension funds using a politico … future taxes into current land prices. Thus, a local government's pension funding policy matters for land prices and the … utility of young households. Underfunding arises in equilibrium if the pension funding policy is set by the old generation …
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Public sector defined benefit pension plans are based on final earnings. As such, these plans are back-loaded; those …
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We explore what happened when the state of Utah moved away from its traditional defined benefit pension. In its place … employment under the new pension design and an improving economic climate in the state. Our results imply that public pension … reformers must consider employee responses in addition to potential cost savings, when developing and enacting major pension …
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There is little systematic information on the distribution options in public sector retirement plans and how annuity options are priced relative to the standard single life annuity. This study examines the distribution options of 85 large public retirement plans covering general state employees,...
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Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision on Social Security benefits received by individuals and … jobs where a pension was earned. WEP also reduces spouse benefits. GPO reduces spouse and survivor benefits for persons who … worked in uncovered government employment where they also earned a pension. Unlike previous studies, we take explicit account …
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Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension … included in the model. On the other hand, pension wealth accumulation is greater for employees in all three government sectors … taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth …
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pension liability and its market value. We then discuss our doubts about the methodology of earlier papers which studied the … studies that unfunded pension liabilities are accurately reflected in lower share prices …
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