Retirements at risk / Alicia H. Munnell -- Expanding participation in America's workplace retirement system / Gary Burtless -- Financial market turbulence and social security reform / Gary Burtless -- The plan to save American workers' retirements / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Learning from...

This paper surveys the most significant problems of the pension systems of EU11 countries. These nations had to transform their old-age social security systems after replacing a state-socialist economic order with a capitalist one. Stressing common as well as specific features, our paper...